Walkthrough Process

 Office of Special Education has an accountability system  RV is continuing the Special Education Walkthrough process as part of our district improvement plan  QIP: Quality Improvement Process Plan  A document that consists of activities that enable a district to improve in its targeted areas  Created by a team (administrative, teacher, etc)

“Unlike a classroom observation which provides a view of a single classroom, a walk through creates a school-wide picture made up of many small snapshots.... It’s a strategy for providing a school, not an individual teacher, with feedback about what it’s doing or not doing....” “Walk throughs are a way of collecting data about the school’s success in achieving its goals…. They provide a way for the principal to determine what additional support teachers need in order to achieve the school’s goals.” Richardson, J. (2001). Seeing through new eyes. Tools for Schools.

 A process and a set of tools that have a specific focus  A way to provide the school with continual feedback about what’s working and what’s not working  A way to build a professional learning community at a school  A way to improve student achievement  A way to focus on effective instruction  A tool to enhance classroom visits

 Effective data-gathering strategies  Reflective analysis of Curricula  Reflective thinking strategies  Program Improvement  Student Achievement Classroom walkthroughs are not part of the formal evaluation process

 Initial Briefing  Actual Walkthrough  Debrief  Goals for debrief  Strengths  Gaps  Aha’s  Why we don’t give specific feedback to visited classrooms

 Special Education Walkthrough Cabinet  Teachers  Focus Areas:  Literacy  Differentiation  Assessment  New Tools – revision of documents

A series of guides that has been developed to improve achievement for SWDs. A series of guides that has been developed for use by the Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Center statewide network (RSE-TASC)

Observable evidence of the Quality Indicator which leads to enhanced student achievement For Example: Scaffolding Flexible Grouping Questioning Peer Conferencing

 Data Collection Tool Data Collection Tool Data collection tools have been revised to ensure consistency in identification and documentation of evidence.

 Quality Indicators/Look Fors  K-12 Data Collection Tools  Literacy  Differentiation  Assessment  Walkthrough Schedule  Building Map

 RV Continuum of Services  Program Structure  Services

 Going in to the classroom  Documenting Evidence  Use the forms to comment  Be sure to address the actual look for

“People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.” “Lessons from Geese” was transcribed from a speech given by Angeles Arrien at the 1991 Organizational Development Network and was based on the work of Milton Olson. It circulated to Outward Bound staff throughout the United States