I-SS Classroom Walkthrough Follow Up Training

1. I-SS Classroom WalkthroughFollow Up Training A Tool for Improving Student Learning & Classroom Instruction

2. Welcome! Please use sticky notes to capture your questions or “muddy” things that need clarification regarding the tool, the operational definitions, or the CWT process.

3. Learning Targets for Today’s CWT Session: • I can explain what to look for in classrooms regarding the “look fors” on the CWT tool. • I can enter my CWT data into Teachscape accurately and in a timely manner. • I can access my school’s CWT data in Teachscape and create reports based on specific data. • I can understand how to use my school’s CWT data to improve instructional practice.

4. "Unlike a classroom observation which provides a view of a single classroom, a walkthrough creates a school-wide picture made up of many small snapshots... It's a strategy for providing a school, not an individual teacher, with feedback about what it's doing or not doing…."(Perry, as quoted in Richardson, 2001)

5. Walkthroughs help a district/school in raising student achievement by: • Providing a quick and focused way to collect data • Outlining effective research-based teaching practices and the features of classroom environments that need to be present to impact student achievement with specific CWT look fors • Identifying a baseline and then measuring ongoing progress toward goals

6. CWT also enables you to: • Focus on best practice every day through frequent walkthroughs • Collect aggregate data, allowing you to see at-a-glance what's happening in your school • Focus on specific components and collect data to improve those areas • Strengthen professional learning communities through focused dialogue with your teachers • Follow a process that is time efficient

7. CWTs are NOT… • a tool to use for individual teacher evaluation. CWTs ARE… • focused on instructional improvement and classroom practices across a school building. • a 4-7 minute snapshot

8. PLAN

9. Planning with a Focus • What is your CWT process so that walks happen everywhere and there is consistency (time of day, all subject areas, all teachers, etc.) • What do those outside of your school need to know and do when they come to your school to complete CWTs?

10. DO

11. Questions??? • What questions do you have about the “look-fors”, based on the paired walks you’ve completed?

12. Entering the data • Log in to www.teachscape.com • Click on “Data Collection Tool” • Click on “Data Entry and Management” • Click on “Enter Data” • “Manage Entries” will allow you to see how many you’ve done or allow you to edit entries already entered.

13. Creating Customized Reports to Look at Your School’s Focus Areas Determine your areas of focus for your school based on student and teacher needs. Consider your SIP focus, academic data, and teacher evaluation data. Also consider how components of the I-SS model that your school is refocusing on.

14. Pulling Your Data and Creating Reports • Log in to www.teachscape.com • Click on “Data Collection Tool” • Click on “Reporting” You can create and save custom data reports, based on the information you want to share. Look at your school’s data and practice creating reports.

15. STUDY

16. Who needs the data and how will they use it? Discuss how each of these teams can use this data to help move learning forward. • Leadership Team • School Improvement Team • Professional Learning Communities • District – Curriculum & Instruction

17. So how can we give teachers the feedback they are asking for? Make it personal, not evaluative (form): • Sticky note • E-mail • Verbal comments • Other ideas???

18. Helping teachers to reflect on the data and their practice… If we want teachers to understand and use the data, we also have to make sure they understand the indicators on the tool. Work together to create questions that help teachers to value the data and focus on improving their practice.

19. Helping teachers to reflect on the data and their practice… • How are you keeping your students engaged? With questioning? With technology? With differentiated instruction? • What instructional strategies are your students responding positively to? • How are you using PDSA to help students master learning targets/new standards? • How are you planning math lessons to lead students from concrete to representational to abstract? • How are you integrating the anchor standards into all of your lessons?

20. ACT

21. Completing the Cycle and Seeing Change • Based on data, guide teachers to develop next steps (differentiated because focus areas may be different) • Provide time for teams for follow up discussion • Keep it on the agenda and revisit focus areas often!

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23. Planning with a Focus • Discuss how your school can use CWT data to improve student learning & classroom instruction • Matrix reminder – you’ll pull data at the end of each quarter • Place it on the agenda (Leadership Team, SIT, PLC, etc.) • Who “owns” this process at your school?

24. Expectations • Complete 10 paired walks by Oct. 30 (end of the first quarter; one person from the pair turns in inter-rater reliability forms to Dr. Taylor) • Complete 5 CWTs per week (that’s only one classroom a day!) • Walks should start the week of September 3.

25. Resources • Operational Definitions • CWT Shared Folder in Google Drive