Professional Development, Expectations, and Coaching: One School’s Approach to Strengthening Balanced Literacy Instruction

A. Katharine Bartlett is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick. She holds a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, a B.Ed. from Queen’s University, and a M.Ed. from UNB. For the past sixteen years she has worked in Nunavut holding a variety of roles at both the Department and school level. Her doctoral research focuses on uncovering the lessons that can be learned about literacy instruction in a bilingual environment and the implementation of educational initiatives in Nunavut.