Learning Walks: Principals, Let’s Focus our Literacy Lens (Pathway 3)

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This service is designed to support principals in mastering impactful literacy instruction by focusing on high-leverage "look-fors" that identify key indicators of effective teaching. Principals will learn how to observe classroom practices, engage in meaningful follow-up conversations with individual teachers, and use emerging themes from these observations to inform professional learning opportunities.

By leveraging these insights, principals can create targeted professional development that directly elevates classroom instruction, drives student achievement, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in literacy practices across the school.

The Benefits

  • Deep Leadership Routines

Learn high-leverage learning walk practices that
guide meaningful instructional analysis.

  • Data-Informed Feedback

Collect and respond to literacy instructional
data to drive continuous improvement.

  • Strengthen Literacy Outcomes

Increase capacity for effective
implementation, improving teaching practices
and student success.

Goals

  • Look-for documents that align to impactful literacy practices, and are customized to match district goals, practice changes, curriculum, etc.
  • Guided Learning Walks, with a CESA 6 consultant, to notice and discuss classroom instruction aligned to the look for documents.
  • Follow-up discussions with principal teams to analyze themes of instructional strengths and challenges, and guidance with next-step planning.
  • Co-designing feedback conversations and questions to build principal skills in working with teachers to improve instruction.

Structure & Schedule

6-8 Days of Training (3-4 in district)



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