She has also been a staff developer and literacy coach.
All 1,200 schools will have a math and a literacy coach under Mr. Klein's plan, to help teachers learn the new programs.
The literacy coach at his school wants to teach children about "genres," when they have not yet mastered grammar and spelling.
An eighth-grade English teacher, became secondary literacy coach for the middle and high schools.
Her mother is a literacy coach at Intermediate School 266 in Bellerose, Queens.
Mr. Klein said in the interview that he was particularly pleased with the parent coordinators, the math and literacy coaches and the principals' academy.
Her mother is a literacy coach at Public School 43 in the Bronx.
The International Reading Association has its own standards for reading specialists, which they also term literacy coaches.
She has been her school's literacy coach.
She is a literacy coach in the Boston public schools.