Standards for Middle And High School Literacy Coaches

Literacy coaching - a form of highly targeted professional development - can be a potent vehicle for improving reading skills. Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches outlines the ideal of what a literacy coach should know and be able to do - in delivering both leadership and support in individual content areas. It is offered as a blueprint not only for literacy coaches themselves, but for policymakers, school and district administrators, and teacher educators, in the hope that it will help support and develop coaching in ways that will most benefit adolescent learners. (Support for this project provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York)

The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research.

Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better.

Some of the many areas we publish in include:

-Comprehension
-Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers
-Early Literacy
-Adolescent Literacy
-Assessment
-Literacy Coaching
-Research And Policy