Lead With Instructional Rounds
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Lead With Instructional Rounds
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Author : Vicki Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Lead With Instructional Rounds written by Vicki Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with categories.
A practical guide to instructional rounds for educators Isolation is a pervasive characteristic of life for a teacher in a modern school. Teachers meet in professional learning communities, attend trainings, and are even observed by administrators while they teach, but they rarely get the chance to see what other teachers do in the classroom. When the bell rings, they find themselves alone with their students. Instructional rounds can counter that isolation. The idea itself--centered around teachers observing and providing feedback on each others' teaching--is relatively simple, but as Vicki Wilson shows, the effects are profound: Observing educators pick up new ideas. Observed teachers experience a confidence boost. New school-wide instructional initiatives can be adopted more quickly. And broader school-improvement goals can be supported with concrete examples. Most important of all, instructional rounds rescue teachers from isolation by fostering a shared sense of mission and growing trust between fellow educators, who realize they have a team that supports and values them. Wilson's willingness to be honest about the process she implemented in her own school--the moments of doubt, the ups and downs, the mistakes and successes--transforms this practical book into something inspiring. "A powerhouse guide for all educators. Wilson fills a gap in the field with this brilliant, practical godsend of a book that can be implemented at your school starting right now." --Rick Jetter, PhD, author, keynote speaker, and cofounder of Pushing Boundaries "Lead with Instructional Rounds offers the what, why, and how to bring teachers within a building together to learn from one another in a safe and positive environment." --Connie Hamilton, author of Hacking Questions and curriculum director in Saranac Community Schools "In Lead with Instructional Rounds, Vicki Wilson eloquently shares her vast experiences and provides a blueprint for getting educators into each others' classrooms, all while being intentional and hyperfocused on high-quality instruction throughout the process." --Thomas C. Murray, author of Personal & Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences that Impact a Lifetime and director of innovation for Future Ready Schools
Instructional Rounds In Education
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Author : Elizabeth A. City
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Instructional Rounds In Education written by Elizabeth A. City and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
Instructional Rounds in Education is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms--much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before--educate all students to high levels--yet we don't know how to do that in every classroom for every child. Inspired by the medical-rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching.
The Power Of Teacher Rounds
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Author : Vivian Troen
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2014-05-05
The Power Of Teacher Rounds written by Vivian Troen and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with Education categories.
The definitive, step-by-step guide for conducting teacher rounds! With teacher rounds, educators benefit from the observant peer learning that’s common in other demanding fields. From practical strategies to ready-to-use templates, this invaluable book offers a complete toolkit for leading a thriving teacher rounds program. Readers will learn how to: Create positive, empowering teams that lift both instruction and student performance Link teacher rounds with Common Core implementation Develop rounds facilitation skills through vignettes, video clips, and group learning exercises Lead productive year-end program reviews Understand how principals and department chairs can best support the rounds program
The Lead Learner
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Author : Michael McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
The Lead Learner written by Michael McDowell and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Education categories.
To make a lasting impact, start with your own learning. What’s better: a rigorous system that emphasizes traditional academics, or an innovative one that prepares students for tomorrow’s world? With McDowell’s new model of educational leadership, you don’t have to choose. You can create an impactful system that ensures growth for all students in both core academic content and 21st-century skills. The Lead Learner shows you how starting with your own professional learning helps you plan for and meet the unique learning needs of staff and students—while getting the biggest impact from your limited time. You’ll also find ways to: Ensure clarity in strategic planning Establish coherence throughout the system Enact system-wide capacity-building processes Craft your personal leadership skills With practical examples, stories from the field, and numerous activities and reflective questions, this insightful book takes you step-by-step through the work of the learning leader—so you can ensure engaged learning for all. The enduring contribution of this book is in the guidance it provides leaders to recognize that they are part, an important part, but just a part, of a networked system. As such, their decisions and actions send messages throughout the system about what is valued and what is not. Take heed to McDowell’s advice and you’ll have a healthy, growth-producing system that will be the envy of those around you. The work is possible, the information is available, and the results are clear. Douglas Fisher San Diego State University
Equity Visits
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Author : Rachel Roegman
language : en
Publisher: Corwin Press
Release Date : 2019-08-07
Equity Visits written by Rachel Roegman and has been published by Corwin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-07 with Education categories.
Because equity and instruction are inextricably bound Why are equity visits such a critical first step to increasing opportunity and access for our under-served students? Because they take instructional rounds to a new level, providing a powerful lens for investigating the intersections of equity and instruction. After all, how can we possibly deliver equitable learning experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for our students, without first pinpointing problems of practice? That’s where Equity Visits will prove absolutely indispensable to district and school administrators. It details how to combine a strong focus on instruction with explicit, intentional efforts to address systemic inequities. Inside you’ll find A range of data collection activities and tools to target central issues of equity in your school Clear guidelines on how to investigate the ways instructional practices, structures, and beliefs lead to inequitable educational experiences—and how these are often masked in the day-to-day life of schools and districts A frank discussion of how to make race and racism an explicit part of investigating and addressing educational inequities Voices of school and district leaders who have taken crucial first steps to become "equity warriors" Recommendations on how to develop policies, initiatives, and practices to confront those inequities Few dispute that instructional improvement must be a central focus of educational leadership, but for too long achieving educational equity has been absent from the conversation. Here is your opportunity to ensure equity occupy a central spot in data collection and analysis, and be explicitly discussed at all levels of your school or district organization. In short, essential reading and doing for all administrators!
Instructional Rounds
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Author : Thomas Fowler-Finn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Instructional Rounds written by Thomas Fowler-Finn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Effective teaching categories.
The author explores the Instructional Rounds (IR) model, illustrating its capacity for positive educational change. He identifies pitfalls if there are misapprehensions about its implementation and addresses the varied impact of factors including variation in participant understanding; make-up of network cohorts; school and system contexts; and the quality of facilitation. Drawing upon the results of programs in the US and Australia, he concludes that effective implementation of the model can lead to learning at scale, and offers helpful hints to those who seek to facilitate it in schools.
The Art And Science Of Teaching
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Author : Robert J. Marzano
language : en
Publisher: ASCD
Release Date : 2007
The Art And Science Of Teaching written by Robert J. Marzano and has been published by ASCD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.
Lead Like A Pirate
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Author : Shelley Burgess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Lead Like A Pirate written by Shelley Burgess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Education categories.
This book explains how to design classroom experiences that encourage students to take risks and explore their passions in a stimulating, motivating, and supportive environment where improvement, rather than grades, is the focus.
Becoming A School Principal
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Author : Sarah E. Fiarman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2019-01-02
Becoming A School Principal written by Sarah E. Fiarman and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-02 with Education categories.
The principal’s role is increasingly understood as a critical lever for school improvement. Yet the job can be a solitary one, offering few opportunities to reflect with colleagues. What does it take to manage the work of continuous improvement—to push staff members constantly to operate outside their comfort zones? What dilemmas and challenges must principals confront? How can school leaders learn from their mistakes and move forward? In Becoming a School Principal, Sarah E. Fiarman describes her first few years as a school principal committed to enacting a powerful vision of leading and learning. Drawing thoughtfully on the literature of school reform and change leadership, Fiarman discusses a wide range of topics, including empowering teachers, building trust, addressing racial and economic inequities, and supporting a culture of continuous learning, as well as thornier issues such as learning to use authority skillfully, dealing with resistance, and managing supervision and evaluation. The book addresses common challenges and highlights missteps as well as successes. A contributing author to several leading books on school reform and instructional improvement, Fiarman engages readers in a lively, frank, and revealing conversation about building the vision and capacity to provide effective instruction for all students and the intensely personal process of learning to lead.
Using Instructional Rounds At The School Level To Improve Classroom Instruction
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Author : John Melvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Using Instructional Rounds At The School Level To Improve Classroom Instruction written by John Melvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Despite the growing descriptions of effective teacher community --and lessons about the conditions needed for them to survive -- more research has been done on exemplars of strong professional community than on efforts to produce professional community where it doesn't already exist. Building professional community is important to school improvement as it promotes cooperative, job-embedded learning where teachers engage in serious discussions about teaching that could lead to shift in instructional practice. Research on individual and group change suggests that these shifts are unlikely to occur without a supportive environment that includes positive pressure for change. The introduction of organizational routines designed to make teaching more public and collaborative is one solution. Instructional Rounds is a collegial network based approach to improving teaching and learning. At the school site level, Instructional Rounds can create a system and structure where teachers engage in professional dialogue and take collective action in their schools. Using a modified design development format (with an action research component), this study focuses on the implementation of Instructional Rounds at a school site. The study documents teacher experience with Rounds and documents a second iteration of Rounds that more resembled the protocol of Lesson Study. The participants were 24 teachers from an urban elementary school in the Bay Area of California where I serve as Principal. The findings of this study indicate that Instructional Rounds is a promising practice at a school site that can further the goal of making teaching more public and collaborative. The findings also indicate that, due to embedded norms of privacy and a culture of isolation, teachers will receive Rounds with some resistance as it opens up a focus on classroom practice. A key component of the initial success of Rounds was the role played by a site instructional leadership team, which led the planning and endorsed the approach. A second implementation of the intervention, grade-level rounds that resembled Lesson Study, did not have sufficient buy-in and contained many competing foci, and was not as effective. Nonetheless, for the teachers who did complete the full parameters of the Lesson Study, there was evidence documenting the promise of this practice to promote in-depth conversations of instructional practice. Overall, the findings in this study demonstrate the complexity in the introduction of organizational routines designed to make teaching more public and collective at a school site. From a perspective of distributed leadership, all leadership entities (teachers, administration, outside partners) need to be aligned and all potential resources in the school need to be sufficient for the introduction of the new routine to be successful.