Tag: classroom walkthroughs
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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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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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6 Tips for Getting Started with Classroom Walkthroughs
eWalk is a tremendous tool that allows our walk-through process to be fluid, ever changing to meet the needs of our school.
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Iowa Athletic Director Develops Coaching Walkthrough
Brad Rose knows what good coaching looks like and how it can motivate student athletes to win – in all aspects of life. Rose is the Activities Director for West Des Moines Community Schools in Iowa, and has coached baseball, football, basketball and track teams – many of them to state titles. Over the past…
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Monitoring Implementation of Common Core State Standards
Many new initiatives come and go or do not garner the results once hoped for at inception. This failure to mature into the productive educational programs creators once hoped for can be attributable to many things. Often that critical component of planning and implementation that is overlooked or not emphasized enough is the monitoring piece.…
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eWalk Secrets
One of the best kept secrets and most powerful features of eWalk is the amazing ways that you can use it as a way to communicate with and work with others.
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Pineville ISD Uses eWalk to Close the Achievement Gap
Providing precise, immediate feedback to a teacher following a classroom visit is something most school administrators strive to do. Unfortunately, many principals hand write observations on paper and can’t share these notes with teachers in a timely manner. Such was the case at Pineville Independent School District in Kentucky before they adopted eWalk as their…
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Walk-throughs Result in a New Math Initiative
A few weeks ago I was observing one of my Math teachers during my regular walkthrough process. I noticed him using his personal iPad as an instructional tool. He had purchased his own VGA connector which allowed him to project the iPad image on his Promethean board. He also used a 10-foot VGA cable to…
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Need to Learn What is Happening in Your School?
I am very excited about participating in this new Blog series from Media-X Systems. As a high school principal, I am always looking for effective strategies and efficient tools to assist me in my role as school leader. I have found both of those in eWalk from Media-X. I began using eWalk five years ago…