The Collaborative Literacy Coaching Framework for Transformation: Humanizing Prerequisites for Reflective Practitioners

Abstract

Literacy coaching is a professional learning model designed to provide teachers with supportive partnerships as they enhance their literacy instruction (L'Allier et al., 2010). However, the enhancement of instruction requires teachers to make changes to long‐standing instructional practices. To prepare for change, teachers must have the psychological safety and time to explore their beliefs, values, and identities and how these intrapersonal factors support or hinder change (Dewey, 1933). Literacy coaches can guide teachers through this preparation by using The Collaborative Literacy Coaching Framework for Transformation, which focuses on the cultivation of relationships, the examination of intrapersonal factors, the acknowledgment of how these factors impact instruction, and the need to plan for change. I will share a detailed outline of this framework and share the stories of three teachers who were better prepared for change while working within it.