Archive for the ‘Instructional Rounds’ Category
Sunday, September 16th, 2012
Last week I facilitated an Instructional Round at a neighbouring school and tried to embrace some of the principles of Data Wise into the evidentiary analysis of the observations. The initiative was well received so I thought I would share it.
There were 3 groups of principals who observed students in ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Last month David Rease Jnr from Harvard visited Elsternwick to view our progress in implementing the Data Wise: Inquiry Approach to Improving Instruction in schools. We were quite chuffed at David's visit and recorded this clip to capture some of his initial observations and reflections.
As you will hear he commented on ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Earlier this month the Beachside Network of Schools Instructional Rounds group had its first 'Round". Thanks to the generous support of the teachers from Black Rock PS a group of principal class educators gathered to discuss instruction with a focus on differentiated Instruction. We also heard about a potential problem ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
As I set up our Network Instructional Rounds dates for 2012 I was interested to read and reflect upon another group of principal evaluations of their experiences last year.
Overwhelmingly the consistent comment of principals as observers in both groups are that they now are interested in asking students about lesson learning ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Earlier this year Penny, one of my assistant Principal's, and I participated in the ASCD summer conference in Boston. One workshop we attended was by Pete Hall the Principal of Sheridan Elementary School in Spokane.
Pete spoke about the need to monitor classroom instruction to improve performance. He used a walk-through as tool to monitor instruction and ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Over the past 3 months I have been honoured to observe instruction by teachers in classrooms across a number of schools. One of the indicators of effective instruction is that each lesson has a clear learning intention stated up front to the students in the class. In most classrooms I visited the ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
I was honoured recently to participate in a 1/2 day conversation with Professor Richard Elmore from Harvard University on Instructional Rounds.
He spoke about where the protocols of Instructional Rounds first developed, the pivotal problem of practice, the challenge of the constructivist to make sense of instruction, our tendency for procedural recall ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
I've just returned from Wollongong where I was invited by the Australian Capital Territory [ACT] principals to share my journey of school improvement.
For those like me who are unfamiliar with the ACT public education system it has approximately 81 schools with different configurations: years P-6, 7-10, 11-12 type schools I ...
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