1. Quality Instructional Leadership
Tool for Observing Quality in Classroom & Collecting Data

2. Welcome!
Opening remarks
Objective:
As instructional leaders, to deeply explore observable evidence of cultures of caring, competence, and excellence in classrooms.

3. Project Norms Stay open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.
Disagree with the idea, not the person.
Everyone a participant; everyone a listener.
Honor time commitments.
Accept non-closure.
Honor confidentiality.
Stay engaged.
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4. Continuous Improvement
Our work continues to be finetuned and improved!

6. Working Teams After counting off, reconfigure with your new team.
Your team will then be assigned either the Culture of Caring, Competence, or Excellence.
With your team members, brainstorm what you could observe in a classroom within 5 minutes that would provide evidence of that culture.
Note: Although the Cultures do overlap, please be mindful of staying focused on the specifics of your assigned Culture.

7. Refinement
Using the list you generated, work to reduce it to items that best capture the essence of your assigned Culture.

8. Compare and Refine
Compare your list to the list we provide. Note similarities and differences.
Make recommendations for alterations you would make to the provided list. (What might you add? What might you take off?)
To keep the list tightly focused, work to keep your recommended list approximately the same size as the provided list.
Be prepared to share-out your recommendations to the group.

9. Present Your Recommendations
Each team will share out a synopsis of their discussions and recommended list.

10. Application
With your school group, discuss how this tool might be used to assist you in your journey to improve PreK-5 instruction.
Be sure to extend your thinking beyond its use as a 5- minute observation tool.

11. Possibilities Observation pre and post conversations Improvement plans
Peer observations

12. Thank you for your time & effort!
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
Thank you for your time & effort!