Instructional Walks: The First Four Weeks
A free email course for literacy leaders
As a school leader, are you:
new to the position?
feeling stuck in your office?
unsure how to navigate the larger literacy discourse?
wanting to better support teachers during these complex times?
looking for a clear purpose to your work, supported by other leaders?
Join us here for a four-week course on how to get into classrooms and create an instructional walk habit this September.
You will learn about how daily classroom visits are a leader's first step to literacy success and a thriving, sustainable school culture.
In this four week email course starting the first week of September, you will learn:
How making daily classroom visits a habit can build trust with faculty
How to see literacy instruction through a learning (vs. judgment) lens
How to affirm promising literacy practices
How to communicate feedback that teachers find respectful and useful
The expected outcome for leaders is increased literacy knowledge, a more positive school culture, and student improvement as readers and writers.
Two important notes:
Learning time: This email course is designed to be no more than one hour of reading. Anticipated total hours of learning, including trying and applying the ideas presented here, is approximately 21 hours.
Connected Texts: This course corresponds with Chapter 2 in Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H and Chapter 5 in Read, Write, Lead by Regie Routman. Purchasing the books are not required to engage in this course.
My friend and colleague Regie Routman has found that sustainable schoolwide change requires a commitment of seven years from positional leaders.
In today's world where the average principal's tenure is four years, that is a big commitment.
Start that commitment today and get into classrooms!
This email course will also be posted in the new Reading by Example community. It will be available to join in September. Members will have access to follow up courses and more to support their journey to schoolwide literacy success. Stay tuned for more information!