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Chatting About Instructional Rounds

Chatting About Instructional Rounds Last week, I was invited to chat (via Google Hangouts) with a group of students at Harvard about instructional rounds. Wow – what an honor! It was fun to share the experiences of my team since we launched the practice of IR at Mount Vernon in 2013. Some of the questions posed included… How do you transform the culture of a school? How much time do you spend aligning terms, norms, and expectations with observers and teachers? How do you measure and capture the demonstrations of the MV Mindsets? Have you ever included students or parents […]

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Traditional Observation v Instructional Rounds

In our third year of practicing instructional rounds, I continue to learn and grow in my ability to deliver quality, meaningful feedback to our teachers. They are the best. The top. The elite professionals. I often tell them they are the “Michael Phelps” of education. And even Michael Phelps needs a coach to be the best in his field. I believe instructional rounds is one of the most effective methods to professional growth in education. “A commitment to professional learning is important, not because teaching is of poor quality and must be ‘fixed,’ but rather because teaching is so hard […]

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