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Barbara Donaldson
Barbara Donaldson has two decades of experience in education. She focuses on building a culture of collaboration, shared responsibility, and research-based practices to ensure all students learn at high levels.
Barbara Donaldson
Barbara Donaldson has two decades of experience in education. She focuses on building a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility, and using research-based practices to ensure all students learn at high levels. As a literacy coach, staff developer, and district leader, Barbara helped Parkview Elementary School become a Model PLC at Work® school in 2022.
Barbara served in a variety of roles, including classroom teacher, reading teacher/specialist, literacy coach, and district leadership. She works to empower teachers to embrace continuous professional learning and effective literacy practices to impact student learning.
As a literacy coach, Barbara has walked alongside teachers and teams by co-teaching, modeling, and collaboratively analyzing literacy data. She has also facilitated professional learning regarding identifying and unpacking standards and coached teachers to design formative and summative assessments that resulted in responsive, data-driven instruction. She has presented nationally and regionally.
Barbara holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education (grades 1–8) and a master’s degree in reading education. She earned certifications for reading teacher (K–12) and for administrative reading specialist (K–12), and her postgraduate training includes reading recovery and literacy coaching. Barbara was a 2008 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Fellowship winner.
Presentations by Barbara Donaldson
- Building a Community of Literacy Learners: Research-Based Strategies
- Reading Is Thinking: Powerful Strategies for Maximum Impact
- Co-Teaching: Make It Effective!
- Coaching for High Impact: Power Up!
- Using Data: Getting Tier I and Tier II Right
- Collaborative Teacher Teams: The Engine That Powers Student Growth
- Guided Reading: Moving the Needle in Reading Achievement
- “I Don’t Get It!”: Strategies for Reading Comprehension
- What Do We Want Our Students to Know and Be Able to Do? Unpacking Standards to Drill Down to Essential Learning
- End the Reading Wars
