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: : : : Photo: About The Teacher Label: About The Teacher The coaches in each Cornerstone school will: * Continuously develop their expertise in student and adult learning, literacy, and professional inquiry. * Continuously develop their practice as teachers who are accountable for the performance of students, especially in literacy. * Provide leadership in literacy acquisition and development for their collegues. * Establish demonstration classrooms as examples to replicate for their collegues. * Utilize a full range of professional development skills and strategies including: + knowledge of adult learning research, + facilitation of study groups, + demonstration teaching, + co-teaching, + planning and debriefing, and + hosting collegues, parents, and other visitors in their classrooms. * Support the involvement of parents in the Cornerstone initiative. * Meet weekly with the school principal to plan further development of the initiative. * Work closely with the literacy fellow and liaison in the planning and implementation of all Cornerstone activities. * Participate in scheduled video conferences with fellow coaches in other Cornerstone districts and related video conferences with Cornerstone staff. * Contribute to the Cornerstone newsletters. * Participate in each annual Cornerstone Institute, Cornertone Regional Meeting, and a minimum of one school review yearly. Mission Label: Mission Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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