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Learnership
Put the focus of education back where it belongs—on learning! Do you feel bogged down by endless administrative tasks? Do you wish you could focus more on what truly matters—learning? Learnership provides both insight and solutions for moving past distractions and becoming a learning leader. Cathy Toll illustrates how the practice of learnership can be implemented every day through activities, real-life stories, and narrative bibliography. This book offers: Practices to help teachers improve their effectiveness using problem-solving techniques More effective ways to approach data, testing, and accountability Strategies for supporting Professional Learning Teams (PLT) and educational coaches
Educational Coaching
"This practical guide shows readers how to get the most out of educational coaching. It details coaching models that help teachers overcome obstacles to success; the problem-solving cycle; and characteristics of effective coaching conversations. Full of insights and answers, Educational Coaching is for all coaches and those who lead them"--
The Literacy Coach's Survival Guide
Often, literacy coaches are former classroom teachers who have little or no coaching training. Although confident in their knowledge of reading, literacy coaches may feel daunted when faced with the practical aspects of coaching. This book provides tools and tips to guide literacy coaches as they work in schools to promote more effective literacy instruction.
Surviving But Not Yet Thriving
When author Cathy A. Toll wrote her first book for literacy coaches, The Literacy Coach's Survival Guide: Essential Questions and Practical Answers, she recognized that most literacy coaches were new to their positions and were looking for practical strategies that would help them get through-to survive. However, experienced literacy coaches want more than just to survive, they want to thrive. In this indispensable resource, Cathy offers solutions to the unique issues that experienced literacy coaches face. You'll find help on topics such as: Reconnecting to your intentions and hopes for literacy coaching, Continuing to strengthen relationships with administrators and with teachers of all ki...
Learnership: Invest in Teachers, Focus on Learning, and Put Test Scoresin Perspective
Do you feel bogged down by endless administrative tasks? Do you wish you could focus more on what truly matters--learning? "Learnership" provides both insight and solutions for moving past the distractions and becoming a learning leader. Cathy Toll illustrates this transformational process through activities and focused "learning conversations." Toll uses supported actions, theory and research, real-life stories, and narrative bibliography to explain how the practice of learnership can be implemented on a daily basis. This book offers: (1) Practices to help teachers improve their effectiveness using problem-solving techniques; (2) More effective ways to approach data, testing, and accountability; and (3) Strategies for supporting Professional Learning Teams (plt) and educational coaches. "Learnership" is an invaluable resource for principals and teachers in school-based leadership roles, or anyone who wishes to focus on school improvement and their own personal growth as a leader in education.
Educational Coaching
Educational coaches—whether math, literacy, instructional, or curriculum coaches—vary in the content of the work they do and in the grade range of the teachers with whom they work. But “good coaching is good coaching,” as coaching expert Cathy A. Toll affirms in this, her newest book. All coaches seek to help solve problems and increase teacher success, and they all depend on effective collaboration to do so. This practical guide shows readers how to get the most out of educational coaching. It details • Models of coaching that enhance teachers’ thinking, help them overcome obstacles to success, and lead to lasting change.• Three phases of the problem-solving cycle.• Characteristics of effective coaching conversations.• Components of CAT—connectedness, acceptance, and trustworthiness—that are essential to the partnership.• Practices that support teamwork. Toll also tackles the obstacles that hinder a coach’s success—administrators who don’t understand coaching and teachers who don’t want to engage. Full of insights and answers, Educational Coaching is for all coaches and those who lead them.
The Effective Facilitator's Handbook
A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate. Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. The Effective Facilitator's Handbook is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about ho...
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference
Toll (teacher education, Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis) makes no claim that this presentation is exhaustive; her aim is to offer practical guidance to educators/consultants employed to help teachers improve their techniques or to implement a schoolliteracy program. Each chapter contains a two-to-four page introduction to one facet of arranging or conducting coaching sessions, followed by a vignette demonstrating techniques in hypothetical sessions. Forms to help schedule, organize and evaluate sessions are included on black-line masters to be photocopied. Organization is under the themes of individual conferences, group meetings, demonstration lessons, how to serve an entire school, and how to serve individual students. Specific concepts include the roles of a literacy coach, facilitating disagreement, addressing intimidation, facilitating book study groups, participating in school improvement, and conducting evaluations, among other activities.
Coaching
"Coaching supports teacher development and puts teachers' needs at the heart of professional learning by individualizing their learning and by positioning them as professionals. With many different models available, administrators may find it challenging to determine the kind of coaching that best fits the needs of schools, teachers, and students. This fresh new resource brings together the voices of recognized experts in the field including Joellen Killion, Cathy Toll, Jane Ellison, Randy Sprick, Jane Kise, Karla Reiss, Lucy West, and Jim Knightto present unique approaches for coaching teachers and leaders. Comprehensive chapters review the roles of coaches in schools, examine the research base on coaching, and provide in-depth discussions of specific approaches to coaching, including: Literacy coaching; Cognitive coaching; Instructional coaching; Content-focused coaching; Classroom management; Leadership coaching. Coaching helps readers make more informed choices about a range of coaching approaches to best serve the unique needs of their teachers and schools."--Publisher's website.
Learnership
Put the focus of education back where it belongs—on learning! Do you feel bogged down by endless administrative tasks? Do you wish you could focus more on what truly matters—learning? Learnership provides both insight and solutions for moving past the distractions and becoming a learning leader. Cathy Toll illustrates this transformational process through activities and focused "learning conversations." Toll uses supported actions, theory and research, real-life stories, and narrative bibliography to explain how the practice of learnership can be implemented on a daily basis. This book offers: Practices to help teachers improve their effectiveness using problem-solving techniques More effective ways to approach data, testing, and accountability Strategies for supporting Professional Learning Teams (PLT) and educational coaches Learnership is an invaluable resource for principals and teachers in school-based leadership roles, or anyone who wishes to focus on school improvement and their own personal growth as a leader in education.
