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Learning Walks: Principals, Let’s Focus our Literacy Lens (Pathway 3)

CESA 6 Districts: $8,400 / Non-CESA 6 Districts: $9,000

This service is designed to support principals in mastering impactful literacy instruction by focusing on high-leverage "look-fors" that identify key indicators of effective teaching. Principals will learn how to observe classroom practices, engage in meaningful follow-up conversations with individual teachers, and use emerging themes from these observations to inform professional learning opportunities.

By leveraging these insights, principals can create targeted professional development that directly elevates classroom instruction, drives student achievement, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in literacy practices across the school.

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Benefits

This service includes guided learning walks with individual principals or principal teams for the benefit of understanding what to look for in structured literacy instruction, using instructional data to inform principal-teacher and PLC conversations, and develop continued teacher learning and leadership actions supporting literacy improvement for all students.

  • Delivers a range of professional learning sessions that foster continuous development.
  • Develops educational leaders through targeted training and strategic planning sessions.
  • Offers thorough assessments of existing literacy programs to identify educational gaps.
  • Promotes sustained improvement in literacy through expert-led programs and support systems.

Goals

  • Look-for documents that align to impactful literacy practices, and are customized to match district goals, practice changes, curriculum, etc.
  • Guided Learning Walks, with a CESA 6 consultant, to notice and discuss classroom instruction aligned to the look for documents.
  • Follow-up discussions with principal teams to analyze themes of instructional strengths and challenges, and guidance with next-step planning.
  • Co-designing feedback conversations and questions to build principal skills in working with teachers to improve instruction.

Structure/Schedule

6-8 Days of Training (3-4 in district)

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