{"product_id":"9780807774205","title":"Coaching Teacher-Writers: Practical Steps to Nurture Professional Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves, as well as students, parents, and colleagues. This practical book illustrates how to encourage, lead, and sustain teacher-writers, especially in group contexts. In contrast to guides on writing and teacher research, this book is designed for those who support teacher-writers, such as teacher educators and literacy coaches. The authors offer descriptions of key practices they have developed over years of coaching, teaching, and collaborating with K–12 teachers who write about classroom instruction, teacher research, or advocacy for better policy and pedagogy. Knowing firsthand just how hard writing can be for teachers, they provide a repertoire of strategies to elicit writing, to support teachers as they write, to find audiences for the teachers’ work, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers clear guidance to coach teacher-writers to:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChoose topics and shape ideas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConquer insecurities and draw from their strengths.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEstablish authority with their audience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNavigate publishing, including choosing venues and working with editors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFind time and space to write and create the habits of writing daily.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRespond to audience reaction to their writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflect on their teaching and writing. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevelop a voice and vision as a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Understanding writing is a lifelong journey. This book is an indispensable guide to beginning that journey yourself and together with colleagues.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eElyse Eidman-Aadahl\u003c\/strong\u003e, executive director, National Writing Project\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gives advice on how I can become a better collaborator, facilitator, and cocreator who helps teachers celebrate the power (and joy) that writing can give them.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eCathy Fleischer\u003c\/strong\u003e, professor, Eastern Michigan University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The authors know how to support teachers in gathering the courage to write. I am grateful for the ideas that have ignited my own writing.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePenny Kittle\u003c\/strong\u003e, Teacher and Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Teachers College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068251816176,"sku":"9780807774205","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807774205_p0.jpg?v=1763744090","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807774205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}