How to Lead a CLC Project:
Interviews with CLC Leaders from Massachusetts

Topic: Share your experience with being a team lead, and specifically, how do you define the role?

Topic: What are some of the responsibilities that are unique to being a team lead?

Topic: What are some of the other things team leads do?

Topic: What are the challanges of being the boss and facilitative leadership? How do you balance and decide?

Topic: What are some of the strategies you use to deal with the distance between the team and the schools?

Topic: Are there other challenges that come to mind that are unique to the lead role?

Topic: What are 2 lessons learned from last year to this year (year 1 to year 2)?

Pam Leitzell, CLC Team Leader, Striving Readers Project, Springfield Massachusetts
Dottie Turner, CLC Team Leader, Striving Readers Project, Chicopee Massachusetts

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Topic: What is the role of a literacy coach in a CLC project?

Topic: What strategies are useful for bringing coaches in districts up to speed?

Topic: What are the roles of the coach?

Topic: What are things a coach should not do?

Topic: What can you do about coaches who do too much vs. coaches who do too little?

Topic: How do we facilitate someone who has potential, but is fearful or tentative?

Topic: Suzanne and Sue: Back and forth on coaches in our districts

Sue Woodruff, Project Mentor , Striving Readers Project, Springfield Massachusetts and Chicopee Massachusetts
Dr. Suzanne Robinson, Director, Strategic Learning Center

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Topic: From your perspecitve, what are the roles and responsibilities of a team member?

Topic: What do you want from your team leader?

Topic: What 2 things would you want a team lead to think about to help you in your work?

Dr. Michael Fagella-Luby, Team Member, Striving Readers Project Springfield Massachusetts
Winona Lowe, Team Member, Striving Readers Project, Springfield Massachusetts
Dr. Nanette Fristchmann, Team Leader Striving Readers Project, Chicopee Massachusetts

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Phases of Adoption for CLC Projects

Bev Colombo, Strategic Learning Center
Vicki Ricketts, Strategic Learning Center

Topic: The Exploring Phase

Topic: Planning Challenges

Topic: Planning for Accountability

Topic: "Hidden" Decision-Makers

Topic: Leadership and Culture

Topic: Building Capacity

Topic: Staying the Course