Tom conducts staff development in literacy and leadership, teaches after school workshops, leads a course for literacy coaches, coordinates the Littogether Teacher Leader Project, and is the founder of the New Jersey Literacy Leaders' Network, a group of over 200 principals from all over Northern and Central New Jersey who want to study together ways in which to support and supervise good teaching and learning in reading and writing. He runs the Littogether Think Tank, a group of teachers, coaches, and principals who meet regularly to explore new ideas in the practice of teaching.