Dates: 10/14/2025, 11/18/2025, 1/13/2026, 2/3/2026, 4/21/2026 Grades: K-8 Venue: Online Via Zoom Time: 9:00am - 2:30pm ET (with a 45 minute break for lunch) Presenter(s): Amanda Hartman, Beth Hickey
Course Overview:
This course equips literacy coaches and teacher leaders with effective strategies to lead data-driven coaching cycles that enhance school-wide literacy instruction. Participants will learn to analyze various forms of literacy data to identify patterns in student learning and collaborate with teachers to develop responsive instructional plans. Participants will explore methods for identifying problems of practice, supporting teachers in implementing evidence-based literacy practices, conducting effective coaching conversations, and providing targeted feedback. Participants will consider the needs of adult learners and the ways in which they can support professional learning communities that are collaborative and effective as well as the ways they can help their schools leverage resources, expertise, and time to meet students’ needs.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes:
Design and facilitate coaching cycles that respond to identified instructional needs
Create tools for documenting teacher growth and measuring impact
Implement systems for monitoring the effectiveness of coaching support
Develop practical frameworks for conducting coaching conversations
Apply strategies for supporting continuous improvement in literacy instruction school-wide
Upon completion of the course participants will receive a certificate of participation; and NY State educators are eligible to receive CTLE credits.
If your school or district is interested in arranging for a group of 15 or more to attend one course (or more) together please contact us at advancingliteracy@tc.columbia.edu. For a full listing of all Focused Topic Courses see our Professional Development Services Brochure.