Implementation support for middle grade literacy teams
I work with schools and districts looking to make literacy instruction more coherent, rigorous, and consistent across classrooms.
I offer support with professional learning, leadership coaching, text-centered data cycles, close reading, annotation strategies, independent reading, and the practical implementation of high-quality instructional materials.
Ways I support schools
Instructional Leadership Coaching Groups
Online coaching cohorts for leaders and coaches who want practical support building stronger literacy systems across the school year.
Focus areas include:
Text-centered reading data cycles
Coaching teachers around complex text
Implementing high-quality materials
Building shared expectations for student work
Responding to benchmark and classroom data
Webinars and Online Workshops
Regular live sessions for leaders, coaches, and literacy teams who want a practical entry point into the work.
Upcoming topics include:
Transforming the Reading Data Cycle
Why Standards Mastery Doesn’t Matter
Wading Into the Deep End with Complex Text
Annotation, Close Reading, and Student Accountability
Independent Reading That Actually Matters
School & District Professional Learning
Custom professional learning for teachers and leaders who want literacy instruction to become clearer, more rigorous, and more consistent.
Focus areas include:
Close reading with complex text
Annotation and text-dependent questioning
Student work analysis
Independent reading systems
Text-centered data cycles
Grounded in real classrooms.
Proven by real results.
School Leadership Results
As an instructional leader, I led a middle school literacy team to exceptional ELA growth in Colorado.
#1 for overall growth among comparable middle schools
#1 growth for Black students
#4 growth for Hispanic students
Top 10% growth for all subgroups
Classroom Results
As a teacher, I led one of Colorado’s top-performing middle school ELA classrooms for nearly a decade.
Top 5% in growth and proficiency statewide
(2013-2019)
#1 classroom for ELA growth statewide, 2017
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