As the education community struggles with literacy achievement, skillful leadership has emerged as a distinguishing feature of successful schools. Since The Literacy Principal was first published, it has helped shape the discussion around accountability and successful practices that support both teachers and students.This revised and expanded second edition challenges principals to become even more involved in championing literacy in their schools. It examines the role of school leaders at both the elementary and secondary levels. Commentaries from teachers, principals, and consultants who have been involved in developing strong school-wide and district-wide literacy programs are included to demonstrate the strides that many schools have made in the last few years. The increasingly important role of school literacy coaches and mentoring teams are presented as models of the power of cooperative approaches to successful literacy programs. David Booth and Jennifer Rowsell offer an overview of the most successful strategies for creating a support network that will nurture and build a powerful reading environment. They help administrators: introduce and support cooperative approaches to literacy that involve coaches and mentoring teams;understand exemplary reading and writing programs and school-wide strategies for promoting literacy growth among students;demonstrate a commitment to literacy among teachers, parents, students, and the community;appreciate the many forms of assessment and evaluation including intervention programs for improving student performance.Rooted in the latest research and real-world experience, this new edition provides tried-and-true frameworks that principals can use in their quest to create schools where literacy thrives.
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David Booth is Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where he has trained teachers to use innovative ways to promote literacy among children for more than 30 years. At present, he is also the Elizabeth Thorn Chair of Literacy at Nippising University.
More about David BoothJennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada. She has written, co-written, and co-edited 20 books on such wide-ranging topics as family literacy, New Literacy Studies, multimodality, youth and popular culture, digital literacies, ethnography, and multiliteracies. She is the co-editor o
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