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Informationen zum Autor Shelley B. Wepner is dean and professor of education. Diane W. Gómez is associate professor of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)/foreign languages and special education. Katie Egan Cunningham is an assistant professor in the Literacy Department. Kristin N. Rainville is assistant professor in the Leadership and Literacy Department at Sacred Heart University. Courtney Kelly is an associate professor in the Literacy Department. All have been or are at the School of Education, Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. Klappentext Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools will help literacy leaders improve teachers professional development in grades K6. The authors use literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative (Changing Suburbs Institute in New York), this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in todays rapidly changing schools. With vignettes, strategies, and guidelines, each chapter is devoted to one essential component of serving as an effective literacy leader. Throughout, the book addresses typical issues leaders and teachers face, such as high-stakes testing, increasing failure rates, rigorous teacher and principal evaluations, family engagement, shrinking resources, and teachers inexperience with instructing diverse students. Zusammenfassung Uses literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative, this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in today’s rapidly changing schools.
