About the Author

Cathy A. Toll supports teacher learning by guiding educational coaches, professional learning teams, and administrative leaders. She has been a consultant, keynote speaker, and workshop leader throughout the United States, Australia, and Canada. Toll has served as a teacher at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and as a reading specialist, curriculum coordinator, school principal, director of literacy research and development, grant director, state department of education consultant, and educational coach. She has published widely for teacher leaders, including six books for literacy coaches and a book on "learnership" for principals and teacher leaders. Toll is chair of the Department of Literacy and Language at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.