Tag: eWalk
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Albemarle Success Story
For 18 years, Albemarle County Schools in Virginia has been using the eWalk software to collect classroom walkthrough data. The eWalk team had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Clare Keiser, Assistant Superintendent for Organizational Development, to ask her what keeps them conducting “walks” and using eWalk. School Culture A deliberate focus of the district…
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How eWalk Impacts My Evaluation
Recently my state has moved to a new leadership evaluation for school administrators. The new system consists of eight leadership standards for which I must provide artifacts and evidence to demonstrate my competency in each area. I am telling you this because over the past two years I have used the eWalk platform to satisfy…
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Building eWalk Templates to Manage Other Observation Platforms
I had previously written an article about the new evaluation system in my state of Georgia and how the new web platform no longer accommodated eWalk. The new platform offered one template to record data and in my opinion was awkward, not user friendly, and was unreliable. I cannot begin to express my displeasure when…
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Use eWalk for RISE Rubric Evaluations
Many districts in Indiana are adopting the RISE rubric for evaluating teacher performance.
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Are You Putting Enough Focus on Classroom Walkthroughs?
Also known as Classroom Observations and Learning Walks
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Teachers Prefer Written Feedback
Teachers overwhelmingly reported that they preferred to receive feedback in writing.
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Three Products, One Mission: Supporting Great Teaching
Is great teaching the key to raising student achievement? Absolutely!
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“I Don’t Sleep Well” – Using Data to Help You Approach a Problem
Instead of having a “hunch†that I might need to change my habits, I now “knowâ€
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Keep your data close
In speaking with schools and districts about our software, there is one question that never fails to be asked: How do we get access to our data? I feel like I can always detect a strong note of worry whenever this question is asked. I am not privy to the policies of each and every…
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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…