Lora Brzezinski

by Vicki Seeger

Session Time: 01/29/2026 2:00 pm | Phase: Verify Perspective, Examine Influence | Session Length: 0:30

Goals

By February 12, I will have a discussion with student P about his reading and use video recording to document the discussion. We will discuss his successes and what he believes is difficult for him, what he still needs to work on, and how we can work together to make progress in reading skills.
Stage: Starting Point

Goal Information

Date: February 2, 2026

Notes

Coach Log Note 1:

Coaching Session #1 – Verifying Perspectives

  1. This or That

Movie first or book first?

Fiction or non-fiction?

Handwritten notes or emails to a close friend?

  1. Learning about your background

Who or what influenced you to become a teacher?

What experiences have you had as a teacher including districts, schools, grade levels?

  1. Examining your professional beliefs

What is something you strongly believe in when it comes to educating children?

What do you consider to be the single most important literacy strategy you use in your classroom?

What do you want to gain from coaching related to literacy practices?

How are the district’s curriculum materials helping or challenging for your students?

What is a goal we can work on this week?

  1. Work for next coaching session

Narrated tour of your classroom

Assigned classroom video

Ideas for goals based on challenges in the classroom and problems of practice from your Canvas course

  • The Foundations of the Science of Reading
  • Assessments
  • Oral Language
  • Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
  • Phonics (Encoding and Decoding)
  • Fluency

Write down the challenges you might face in working on implementing your goals

Read materials in Modules 1 and 2 including taking the self-assessments. We will discuss elements of these modules in our next coaching session.

Coachee Note 1:

We completed some getting to know you activities and what influences Lora has had to become a teacher. She strongly believes that everyone can learn and wants to help her lowest readers in through this coaching process. We will begin with a student (P) who has just been released from phonics interventions but still struggles with reading skills. Lora will interview P to discuss his reading skills with him. She will video this interaction. She will also submit a tour of her classroom.

Lora recently returned from a trip and is catching up on the materials in Module 1 and 2. We will work on discussing materials in the modules when we have our next coaching session on February 12.

Lora has been teaching for 26 years and has taught 1st, 2nd, and 4th grades, all in the Olathe School District.

We also discussed reading fluency which is an issue for many of her students. She uses non-fiction texts to practice fluency skills within the classroom and has used repetitive reading strategies to help with this skill.