2026 Instructional Coaching Conference
We’re excited to welcome Lisa Klein as our keynote speaker for The Writing Rope: Integrating Reading & Writing. Lisa is Vice President and Senior Director of Relationship Management at Keys to Literacy, with a career spanning classroom teaching, special education, reading intervention, and instructional coaching. She is co-editor of Keys to Early Writing and Keys to Content Writing and a frequent presenter at state and national literacy conferences. Lisa brings a clear, practice-informed perspective on how integrated reading and writing instruction strengthens literacy systems and improves student outcomes.
In this year's Instructional Coaching Conference keynote session, Lisa Klein explores the essential connection between reading and writing through the lens of The Writing Rope, offering instructional coaches a cohesive framework for strengthening literacy instruction at the classroom, school, and system levels. This session sharpens coaches’ understanding of how integrated reading and writing development informs instructional priorities, professional learning conversations, and long-term literacy planning. Drawing on her extensive experience as a classroom teacher, special educator, and reading specialist, Lisa highlights how a shared framework for writing can ground coaching work in clarity, alignment, and instructional coherence across content.