Walkthrough Process

2011-2012

Office of Special Education has an accountability system

RV is identified as a District in need of assistance in the category of Dropout for SWDs

QIP: Quality Improvement Process Plan A document that consists of activities that

enable a district to improve in its targeted areas Created by a team (administrative, teacher, etc)

“Unlike a classroom observation which provides a view of a single classroom, a walk through creates a school-wide picture made up of many small snapshots.... It’s a strategy for providing a school, not an individual teacher, with feedback about what it’s doing or not doing....”

“Walk throughs are a way of collecting data about the school’s success in achieving its goals…. They provide a way for the principal to determine what additional support teachers need in order to achieve the school’s goals.”

Richardson, J. (2001). Seeing through new eyes. Tools for Schools.

A process and a set of tools that have a specific focus

A way to provide the school with continual feedback about what’s working and what’s not working

A way to build a professional learning community at a school

A way to improve student achievement

A way to focus on effective instruction

A tool to enhance classroom visits

Effective data-gathering strategies Reflective analysis of Curricula Reflective thinking strategies Program Improvement Student Achievement

Classroom walkthroughs are not part of the formal evaluation process

Initial Briefing Actual Walkthrough Debrief

Goals for debrief Strengths Gaps Aha’s

Why we don’t give specific feedback to visited classrooms?

Development Cabinet Teachers

Focus Areas: Literacy Differentiation Assessment

New Tools

Quality Indicators/Look Fors K-3, 4-8, and 9-12 Literacy, Differentiation, and Assessment

Schedule RV Continuum of Services

A series of guides that has been developed for use by the RSE-TASC network to guide their work in assessment of programs and provisions of professional development, support and technical assistance to districts and schools to improve results for students with disabilities

An observable indicator of best practice which leads to enhanced student achievement

For Example:Direct InstructionThink AloudsFlexible GroupingInstructional Materials

Going in to the classroom Documenting Evidence

Use the forms to comment Be sure to address the actual look for

“People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.”

“Lessons from Geese” was transcribed from a speech given by Angeles Arrien at the 1991 Organizational Development Network and was based on the work of Milton Olson. It circulated to Outward Bound staff throughout the United States