Wonderful that the classroom learning walks include photos of best practices. Such a good idea. Visual items are great conversation starters. Thanks for the posts and guidelines.
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Leadership Learning Walk Journal
My experience with Executive Leadership Coaching was a great way to have a thought partner to refine my plans for this year. Christine was a fantastic sounding board to challenge and elevate our practices. By the end of the coaching cycle, we had developed a digital Journal that our principals can use to capture and reflect on our Leadership Learning Walks this year.
Note: ELCO is a small district with 5 school buildings K-12.
The Leadership Learning Walks will be conducted monthly with all building principals visiting a different school each month. The host principal will provide a list of "look fors" to guide the visits. The look fors are aligned with our Instructional Focus which is a list of research-based instructional practices (based on the work of Hattie and Marzano). The guidance provided by the host principal will help set the stage and provide a focus for the Learning Walks.
As principals observe in the classrooms (15 min each), they are asked to document four things in their journals based on the look fors provided by the school's principal:
- What are learners doing?
- What are teachers doing?
- What questions do you have about what you saw?
- Add photos to a gallery of best practices
After the principals rotate through 4 classrooms they will convene to debrief what they saw. They will provide feedback to the host principal on the look fors and discuss implications for K-12 and their own schools.
Each principal will collect their reflections in their own Learning Walk Journal throughout the year. Their journal will include:
- The feedback they receive when they are the host principal
- Any ideas or suggestions they have for implementation of the Instructional Focus in their own building
- Needs for future professional learning
- A reflection on the Leadership Learning Walk process
I have included a few of the pages from the journal as an example. The Executive Leadership Coaching pushed me out of my comfort zone to learn how to design in Pages and it will help model the use of technology with administration and teachers.
Cover of the Learning Walk Journal
Description of the Look Fors
Example of Look Fors provided by host principal
Learning Walk notes page with gallery
Learning Walk Reflection
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Barb thank you for sharing your inspiring vision for learning. This journal is a great way for #ELCO leaders to document and reflect on the experience having leaders connect to their identified look fors and tying it back to their Learning in Action for teachers and students! You are a Pages wizard!!
This is a great idea. What excellent way to capture evidence and data and help Leadership work through this in a pratical way.
What a fantastic resource for leaders. Pages is such a great platform for reflection and visioning forward. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted on August 14, 2023
Well done Barb!