Learning Walks are a best practice that is supported by current research. It has been proven to be very effective in teacher development as well as student learning results. Teachers collaborating with teachers is "job embedded professional development," and without that, we cannot meet our mission, vision, and strategic directions.
Principals will conduct these learning walks so that they maximize their impact as instructional leaders. The principal to the building is second only to the classroom teacher with impacting student achievement. One of my goals is for all principals to collect evidence of instructional strategies that have the greatest effect size by doing a minimum of 7 learning walks per licensed staff member. This will create the needed coaching sessions that focus on improved instructional strategies. All total, we will conduct over 5000 documented learning walks this year.
