Leadership to ignite learning

Not to brag, but my colleageus and I are often told how much people appreciate our particular brand of professional development. My Instructional Rounds network members routinely claim their experiences to be the most powerful of their careers. My peers hear the same from our College Prepared Project participants, be they veteran teachers, central office administrators, or building leaders. Why is that? What makes professional development consistently effective? Although one

They’re the newest thing out of Harvard: Instructional Rounds. But aren’t they just walkthroughs repackaged? I think not. After years of working with those responsible for developing the instructional rounds protocol and facilitating a number of iterations across the country, I can say unequivocally that walkthroughs and rounds are not the same, nor should they be. Both procedures are designed to spark improvements in student learning and they can easily supplement one anothe