Learning+Walks

=**What is a Learning Walk?**= A school learning walk is a means of seeing first hand what is going on in a school. A learning walk can provide important information about learning in the classes and outside classrooms within a school. Learning walks provide an opportunity to visit many classes in a short time period to gain snippets of information. Over time, these snippets are analogous to individual tiles within a mosaic. With more visits you get more tiles and a more complete picture of instructional practices and student work in a particular school.

**Who Participates in a Learning Walk?**
Building administrators, district administrators, and teachers can all participate in learning walks. = **Why Conduct Learning Walks?** = Learning walks provide an opportunity: v for professional development for the participants by broadening one’s repertoire of instructional strategies and deepening one’s knowledge of the curriculum; v to determine how well professional development activities are taking hold across a school or district; v to access consistency in implementation of curriculum and instructional practices; v to gather data regarding the alignment of curriculum and instructional practices across a school or district; v to gather evidence of strengths and weaknesses in our instructional programs; v to assist with decision-making based upon first hand knowledge of the teaching and learning occurring in classrooms across a school and a district.