The Literacy Leadership Team ─ Sustaining and Expanding Success

Froelich (Florida State U.) and Puig (U. of Central Florida) present a companion volume to their 2007 publication, The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction, offering specific information to assist the literacy coach as a lead learner as well as the entire literacy leadership team to focus on positive change. The text offers a detailed framework for developing, implementing, and sustaining a successful literacy leadership team. The authors provide theoretical background on sustaining literacy leadership teams, with topics such as adult learning principles, fundamental characteristics of learners, developing a common language, and literacy processing. They then present specific action steps for assembling a working system to promote forward shifts, and describe ways to utilize resources as scaffolds to expand success. For administrators, literacy coaches, and teacher colleagues. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kathy S. Froelich received her Ph.D. from Fordham University in New York and has provided professional development opportunities to teachers and literacy coaches at the national level. In addition to her years of classroom teaching experience, she has taught at Agnes Scott College and Thomas University. She is currently teaching in the School of Teacher Education at Florida State University and is the Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Reading. She is co-author of The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction (2007, Allyn and Bacon)

Enrique A. Puig is the Director of the Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Center at the University of Central Florida. He is a certified Reading Recovery teacher and Literacy Collaborative trainer. In addition to being president of the Orange County Reading Council (Florida), Enrique serves as an elected board member of the American Reading Forum and continues to work with students. He is author of The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction (2007, Allyn & Bacon) and Guided Reading and Spanish Speaking Students (Scholastic).