Tuesday, June 9, 2009

New practical book on coaching

Rainy days are good for catching up with the blog and looking at new titles. Practical Literacy Coaching: A Collection of Tools to Support your Work by Burkins just came in from IRA. It is the newest coaching book from the author of Coaching for Balance: How to Meet the Challenges of Literacy Coaching. This is a pretty slim book (it won't weigh down your book bag) and seems to build on Burkin's last book. A less glamorous title for this book would be, "Get the Job Done Well, Don't Burn Out Along the Way, and Don't Reinvent the Wheel in the Process." The print is an easy-to-read size which I like, and the voice flows easily. The book is packed with supportive advice and stories from an active Literacy Coach. The one drawback I see is the multitude of checklists and forms. I would appreciate these on a disc so that the coach doesn't have to retype them!




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