Georgia school officials will use $10 million in federal money to place reading coaches to help improve teaching in 60 low-performing elementary schools, as lawmakers continue to pressure state Superintendent Richard Woods to do more to support a literacy law passed last year.
The move, announced Thursday by Woods, is the first time that the state will directly fund coaches in schools. Coaching is seen as essential because it helps teachers put things they learn about literacy instruction into practice.
“We know that professional learning, without coaching, doesn’t really stick,” Amy Denty, director of literacy for Georgia Department of Education, told a state Senate committee meeting on Feb. 9.
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