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Instructional Leaders

12 Ways Instructional Leaders Can Provide Support
Are you a teacher leader, coach, or administrator looking to introduce or support Daily 5 and CAFE teaching practices to and with your staff? We have some helpful, tried-and-true suggestions.
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Principal and Teacher—Partnering for Student Success
Creating a plan for principals and teachers to partner together sends a strong and powerful message. Here's a look at how it can be done.
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Rethinking How We Use Our Time with Barometer Students
This idea provides time for extra learning support for our students who exhibit the most challenging behaviors.
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The Negative Effect of Walk to Read
Here we explore some of the research and resources you will need to illustrate the importance of keeping your own students for literacy instruction..
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A Coaching Menu
A menu of choices helps get us into collaborative partnerships and allows teachers to sign up for the support that best meets their needs.
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Agents of Change—Encouraging the Growth of Daily 5 and CAFE
How do we as principals, coaches, and teammates help influence and move a staff toward the use of Daily 5 and CAFE?
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Sisters on the Spot–Principal support as their teachers implement CAFE and Daily 5
In this video Karen Janson, a principal from New York, asks us to clarify our vision for supporting teachers who are ready to implement Daily 5 and CAFE.
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Focused Instruction + Layered Strategies = Powerful, Proficient Reading
This conference is a testimony to the power of the CAFE Menu and how focused instruction and layering strategies can help our students be powerful, proficient readers.
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Principal's Pensieve
How Susan Gioiella has adapted the conferring notebook to fit her needs as an administrator.
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A Coach Uses The CCPensieve With Teachers
How one coach uses the CCPensieve with teachers instead of students.
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Leadership Support for Implementing Daily 5 and CAFE
When Gail and Joan met with principal Eric Richards, he asked, "How can I support teachers who have read Daily 5 and CAFE and have been to the trainings? " Gail and Joan share a variety of ways.
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Leadership Support–Know What to Look For, Part 3 of 3
Administrators wanting to support their teachers often want to know what to look for when they go in the classroom. What indicates that Daily 5 and CAFE are being used? Here are a few ideas.
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Leadership Support–The Gift of Time! Part 2 of 3
Allison Behne provides administrators with two ways instructional leaders can support the teachers who are implementing Daily 5 in their classrooms.
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Leadership Support–Showing the Research, Part 1 of 3
This series provides school leaders with fundamental ways to support teachers.
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How can a principal support teachers who are implementing Daily 5 and CAFE?
Eric Richards asks us how he, as a principal, can support his teachers who are implementing Daily 5 and CAFE. The ideas we share might be of interest to your principals as well.
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Sharing Our Teaching with Administrators
How do we share Daily 5 with administrators?
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When to Move to a New CAFE Strategy
In this video, Heather has Gail listen in and offer feedback on her one-on-one conference with Grace. Gail's feedback is specific to the structure of the conference and what is being taught. She also discusses when to move a student onto another strategy.
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Spying on Yourself As a Reader–A Great Way to Model Strategies for Students
Have you ever tried spying on yourself as a reader? So many of us spend time and energy teaching kids what to do to improve their reading, but do we know what we do? Even proficient readers use the CAFE skills!
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Strategies to Start With: 6-5-4-3
If you aren't sure which strategies to assign your students first, this article will help you decide.
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A "COACH" CAFE for Professional Development
Kei Pace is a literacy coach in Tennessee. She and her colleagues have been working to create a menu that will help coaches in their efforts to provide just right professional development for the teachers they support.
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