Category: eWalk
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Sketch Notes
So often when I visit classrooms I see some new and innovative strategies to engage students. I came across one of those strategies just the other day. I walked into a Social Studies class and noticed students drawing pictures and using colored markers. I asked one of the students what they were doing and was…
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School Leaders Preparing for the New School Year
The beginning of the school year is a great time! There are a million things on the minds of teachers in preparing for the new school year and every one of them is a fun thing to accomplish and check off a list. Having held several positions in different schools and school systems for over…
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My Walkthroughs Create Opportunities to Experience Leadership
I am currently working on my comprehensive exams and just completed a practice question. My comprehensive exams focus on Educational Leadership for Learning and while I was answering the question I noticed how often I referenced the observation process. I knew that our process created opportunities for us to participate in leadership, but writing about…
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The Reason I Started Doing Classroom Walkthroughs
As a new principal, I began visiting classrooms so that I would know what was happening in my building. I also wanted to visit classrooms so that I could have intelligent conversations with parents, supervisors, and other stakeholders when they wanted to know what was happening in our building. It started out fairly simple; back…
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Classroom Walkthroughs can Lead to Authentic Changes in Teaching Practice
The final article regarding my tips on Building an eWalk program focuses on analysis and intervention protocols and refining and revising the eWalk program. If you missed the first three articles, you can read them here. Once you have established your eWalk protocols and implemented your eWalk program, you will be well served to establish…
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Using Classroom Walkthroughs to Help Teachers Become Better Educators
This is the third installment of my series on transforming your school by using classroom walkthroughs with eWalk. If you missed the first two installments, you can catch up here: Part one and Part Two. Once you have planned your eWalk program and developed your initial template, you will be well served to establish some…
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Is Mrs. Hobblesworth a hobbit who never leaves the office?
Kelly Rigole regularly gets cast to play “kooky” women, teachers/romance novelists/writers/etc, who really know they are meant to do something. “They have big dreams and big aspirations – they just don’t know what they are yet,” she told us after filming was completed in December for the Media-X web series, Saving the School District. “They…
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Transform Your School with a Well Planned System of Classroom Walkthroughs
Planning is critically important to an effective classroom walkthrough program. You can use eWalk and the ideas here to help lay the foundation for your program. The eWalk Template serves as the data collection tool. A well designed template will provide you with meaningful data that has the potential to transform your school. This is…
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Jetson has a system for classroom walkthroughs
Everyone looks to up to a school principal for leadership and guidance, even though they are not always secure in every decision they make. At least that’s the way veteran actor Paul Whitney sees it. “I look back at principals I had – I was 16 at the time – and how I tried to…
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Helping students in career and technology centers
Scores at Reading Muhlenberg CTC have sky rocketed since eWalk PACE was introduced to this Pennsylvania career and technology school.