I have been an educator for 38 years. I have taught for 20 years in the classroom and then worked for the last 18 years as an instructional coach with an emphasis on literacy. I have taught at all grade levels, K-5. As an instructional coach and Title facilitator in the Marysville school district for the last 18 years, I have created curriculum using a balanced literacy model for our district as a part of a coaching team. I have worked with countless teachers side by side to refine instruction, assess students and adapt instruction based on those assessments. I provided many PD opportunities as well for our district as a part of a coaching team. Most recently, I have worked with teachers at Liberty elementary for the past 5 years. I have helped teachers to use and adapt first, our balanced literacy curriculum, and then our district adopted Ready Gen curriculum. I have helped to facilitate our school wide Acceleration program in reading and math for our 250 plus Title and LAP students. We collect and display student data in a central spot, for all educators to access. We use this data to group students and I work with our teachers as well as 10 para-professionals to give our students an extra dose of literacy instruction based on students' needs. We have established a system to monitor data and adjust these groups school wide every 6-8 weeks, or more often for individual students if needed.