Sarah Kotleba

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Sarah Kotleba earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Iowa and her master's in language acquisition and literacy instruction from San Francisco State University. She has taught in public, faith-based private and secular independent schools in grades 2 through 4 and has worked as a literacy specialist and English language development teacher. She has done work in international comparative education in New Zealand and Israel. Sarah currently works as an instructional reform facilitator in California.


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Seeking Better Student Assessment Tools Recently, I met with the second- through fifth-grade teams at our school to look at student achievement on our district benchmark tests. We analyzed...
Lesson From Muslim Student Teaches Whole School Last spring, a fifth-grade girl approached me in the lunchroom with a question. Asalah  is a Muslim student from Yemen. Our connection had...
Get Past the Discomfort, Discuss LGBT Issues I work as an instructional coach at a large, diverse and underperforming urban public elementary school. Our students are at-risk. Families are...