TY - JOUR
T1 - “You Can’t Put Everything I’ve been through into Professional Development”
T2 - Transformative Literacy Coaching in an “Underperforming” High School
AU - Lesley, Mellinee
AU - Beach, Whitney
AU - Smit, Julie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Because the role of literacy coach as a transformative change agent is a goal of many literacy programs, we set out to examine the process by which a literacy coach becomes a leader and transforms the learning environment of an “underperforming” high school being monitored by the state education department for low test scores. In the present study we followed Ms. Hill (all names are pseudonyms), a literacy coach recruited to transform the English curriculum at Trenton High School over a two-year period-of-time to learn more about the literacy crisis many high schools are facing, the necessity for “transformative” coaching, and specific conditions that foster the development of transformative literacy coaches. We discuss key phenomena that helped the literacy coach design a transformative role.
AB - Because the role of literacy coach as a transformative change agent is a goal of many literacy programs, we set out to examine the process by which a literacy coach becomes a leader and transforms the learning environment of an “underperforming” high school being monitored by the state education department for low test scores. In the present study we followed Ms. Hill (all names are pseudonyms), a literacy coach recruited to transform the English curriculum at Trenton High School over a two-year period-of-time to learn more about the literacy crisis many high schools are facing, the necessity for “transformative” coaching, and specific conditions that foster the development of transformative literacy coaches. We discuss key phenomena that helped the literacy coach design a transformative role.
KW - Professional development
KW - adult learning
KW - middle/secondary schools
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087368452&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19388071.2020.1777231
DO - 10.1080/19388071.2020.1777231
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087368452
JO - Literacy Research and Instruction
JF - Literacy Research and Instruction
SN - 1938-8071
ER -