Leanne Olinger

Leanne Olinger

Leanne Olinger is a current practitioner and instructional coach for the Fort Mill School District in South Carolina. With over 20 years of classroom and coaching experience in both middle and high school settings, Leanne offers a deep understanding of the challenges students, teachers, and administrators face at the secondary level. She specializes in helping schools build frameworks for collaboration and intervention that support student success from the transition into middle school through high school graduation. Leanne's professional passions include increasing reading volume, expanding opportunities for student discussion, and reducing student apathy.

Leanne earned an EdS in educational leadership from Arkansas State University, an MEd in literacy from Winthrop University, and is nationally board-certified in early and middle childhood literacy.

PLC at Work^®

PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.

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RTI at Work™

RTI at Work experts focus on learning for all students and will empower you to build your own timely, targeted, and systematic intervention program. Work with them to implement a results-driven program that provides targeted instruction at all tiers of intervention.

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Presentations by Leanne Olinger

• The Literacy Emergency: Part 1
• The Literacy Emergency: Part 2
• Literacy Workshop Isn’t Just for Elementary: Individualized Instruction in Secondary Settings
• Building a Culture of Literacy: Embedding a Love of Reading in Your School
• Literacy and the 5 C’s of 21st Century Learning
• Student Voices: The Missing Link of Student Engagement
• Apathy Crisis: It is Time to Reclaim Engagement
• Team Work Makes the Dream Work: Exploring Best Practices for Productive Collaboration