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 |  | After almost 30 years in education, Mary Catherine Moran (M.C) maintains an avid enthusiasm for her work. She credits this to the countless number of children, families, classroom teachers and administrators she has been fortunate to meet who have generously shared their perspective over the years. M.C. has been a classroom teacher, a Special Education Training Specialist, and a literacy coach. She is a skilled facilitator, has national and international experience in educational consulting, and promotes a differentiated approach to professional learning. Additionally, she can provide technical assistance and professional learning opportunities on literacy issues such as using data to inform instruction,assessment, exemplary literacy practices and differentiated instruction aligned to learning standards. Her professional experience includes extensive work with migrant children, second language learners, and students with disabilities. |
Mary-Catherine Moran's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
| If you want to build a literacy coaching program or a special education literacy coaching program, Mary-Catherine has the experience and knowledge to do this. She also focuses on ELL instruction and literacy development for students with disabilities. |
Services Provided to Districts and Schools
| Mary-Catherine Moran (M.C.) has almost 30 years of experience in the field of education. She has been a classroom teacher, a professional development provider for teachers who are working with students with disabilities, and a literacy coach. |
Workshop Descriptions
| Learn about these workshops from M.C.: Literacy Leadership: Supporting Your Coaches to Improve Instruction; The Strategies of Coaching–Fine Tuning Your Communication Skills; The "Coaching Continuum": Formats for Collegial Support, and Recommendations for Effective Implementation |
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Published Works by Mary-Catherine Moran
Workshop Description: Differentiating Instruction
| Diversity among the children that we work with is to be celebrated. Often however, teachers are overwhelmed with the practical aspects of how to effectively meet the literacy learning needs of ALL of the students in the classroom. |
Professional Article on Literacy Coaching
| Read Mary-Catherine Moran's article here that was published on the Teachers Leaders website (www.teacherleaders.org). In the article, M.C. describes the main goals of a literacy coaching program and the additional concerns and differences for the special education literacy coach. |
Differentiated Literacy Coaching: Scaffolding for Student and Teacher Success
| Mary Catherine Moran presents a solution through differentiated literacy coaching to help all educators become effective teachers of reading and writing. |
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Related Resources
Education and Professional Experiences
| Mary-Catherine has a M.S. from Syracuse University in Special Education and an M.S. in Literacy from State University of New York at Albany. She is the Senior Literacy Specialist at the Eastern Stream Center; a research foundation program based at the State University College in Oneonta, New York. The Eastern Stream Center is partner with three federally funded comprehensive centers and in this capacity M.C. works with educators from the East coast. |
Literacy Coaching Standards
| These standards for middle and high school teachers were developed by NCTE and IRA in 2005. M.C. presents workshops on integrating the new standards and their implications for building or improving a literacy coaching program. |
ELL Pathways
|  ELL Pathways is an online professional development opportunity for teachers, coaches and administrators to develop understanding and skills in working with English language learners. Essential questions, video clips, related readings and tools for classroom application guide individuals or groups in an investigation of how to increase achievement levels of ELL students. |
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