Education Walkthrough

Most summer PD calendars are planned without looking at last year's data.

The catalog arrives in March. The dates get blocked before April. By May, the summer looks full -- and completely disconnected from what 180 days of classroom walkthroughs actually showed.

The schools that break this pattern usually do it the same way: someone looks at the records before planning the agenda.

Not what felt hard. Not what the team complained about. What the observations actually showed, consistently, across rooms.

The summer planning document most schools skip is the one sitting in their walkthrough history.

Every evaluation framework says the same thing. Observations work best when they're tied to specific behaviors over time.

Marzano. Danielson. All of them.

There's just one catch. It assumes you were in the room. Not once. Repeatedly.

We wrote about what changes when you actually were.

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