Connect and Learn with Other Instructional Coaches

Coach Mentorship Network

Get the advice, tools, and encouragement you need to implement evidence-based literacy practices when you connect and learn with other coaches in our year-long Coach Mentorship Network. 

Tailored tools and support for literacy coaches.

 

Exhausted teachers.  Low-energy classrooms. Stalled students. 

You know that literacy is at the root of these problems. 

You’re actively seeking solutions, but it’s hard to figure this out alone. 

We see you, and we’re here to back you up. 

We developed the Coach Mentorship Network to support coaches like you. 

We’ll help you unlock the potential you see in every teacher and student with tailored literacy tools, support, and feedback for an entire year in a professionally facilitated small group. 

 

2025-26 DATES

Cohort 1

Saturdays: 9 - 11 AM (EST)

Sept 6, 2025

Sept 13, 2025

Oct 4, 2025

Nov 1, 2025

Dec 6, 2025

Jan 10, 2026

Feb 7, 2026

March 7, 2026

April 4, 2026

May 2, 2026

Cohort 2

Thursdays: 9 - 11 aM (EST)

Sept 4, 2025

Sept 11, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Nov 6, 2025

Dec 4, 2025

Jan 8, 2026

Feb 5, 2026

March 5, 2026

April 2, 2026

May 7, 2026

*Additionally, participants receive 4 individual thirty minute check-ins every other month, throughout the year.

Topics covered in the Coach Mentorship Network

When you join a Coach Mentorship Network, you’ll receive a wealth of information as well as the feedback you need to be successful. 

Topics covered include:

  • The role of a coach, coaching methods and cycles, and purposeful planning

  • Year-long literacy goals 

  • Literacy systems and structures within an MTSS framework

  • The 4 types of literacy assessments

  • Data meetings: types and purpose, frequency, protocols

  • Understanding Structured Literacy principles

  • Designing and leading professional learning for educators and families 

JOYFUL CLASSROOMS

MOTIVATED STUDENTS

CONFIDENT TEACHERS

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Join a Coach Mentorship Network if you support practitioners

We encourage educators who support and coach practitioners (those who directly work with students) to enroll in a Coach Mentorship Network. 

Job titles include:

  • Coach

  • Facilitator

  • MLL director

  • Special education teacher

  • Teacher

  • Lead teacher

  • Reading specialist

  • Department leader

  • Dean

 

Coach Mentorship Networks run September to April

Each cohort kicks off the first Saturday of September, and concludes the first Saturday of April. 

Each 20-person cohort meets on Saturday mornings for 2 hours over the course of a year.

Office hours are assigned separately on the same morning.

Cohorts are facilitated by an experienced educator with current classroom experience. 

 
 
 
 

Investment

It is $4,500 per person to participate for the full year

Testimonials

  • “I feel now we are on the trajectory that we needed to be on a long time ago. We have all admin on the same page, and that's monumental. And that is absolutely because of Root Literacy Design.”

    - GERRI LALLO
    Reading Specialist
    HighSchool

  • “Implementation is really messy. Implementing evidence-based practice with a really diverse group of teachers and students is really complicated. And RLD is guiding us through that.”

    - MOLLY TRACY-HARRIS
    Reading Specialist K-5

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    “The self-efficacy of the other teachers that were in the program with me was so exciting to see. Now they're saying, ‘This is my job and I am a good reading teacher as well.’"

    - RENEE REIS
    Reading Specialist
    Middle School

  • Testimonial by Becky Bueno

    “As an English language development instructor, much of my previous training aligned with what I learned through Root Literacy, reinforcing my existing knowledge and addressing gaps in my understanding.”

    -BECKY BUENO
    Multi-Language Learner Coordinator
    Grades K-12

SAVE MY SEAT!