Early Literacy Coaches provide one-on-one coaching and professional development workshops for nearly 700 educators each year. Our Early Literacy Coaches visit under-resourced preschools and childcare centers to providing ongoing coaching for educators on an ongoing basis throughout the school year. Coaches support educators in providing literacy and language-rich interactions, implementing quality shared reading experiences for young children, creating writing centers, integrating literacy into daily activities, supporting social-emotional development through literacy, and other methods of increasing the culture of literacy in their classrooms. In addition, Make Way for Books Early Literacy Coaches offer a variety of interactive professional development workshops for hundreds of early childhood educators each year. As a result of The Story Project, 99% of educators gain strategies, skills, and tools to better support the emergent literacy and language development of young children in their care.
According to a participating educator,
“What haven’t I learned? The many connections with literacy, vocabulary, communication, imagination. Literacy is connected with everything. Children have learned to self express with stories. Learned to make strong connections with children if there’s a story involved. They open up to us.”