Here is a partial list! This is WHY your instructional leadership matters. This is WHY your time and effort make a difference!

• High Fives! - Recognizing excellent teaching in action!
• Visible Leadership - Modeling authentic interest in the day-in-and-day-out efforts of your teachers and of students.
• Professional Learning - Capturing and analyzing eWalkThrough® data across your organization can objectively drive the design of differentiated professional learning.
• Self-Reflection & Conversation - Coaching & mentoring are now based on real-time observation--in the classroom--where expectations meet practice!
• Continuous Improvement and KESA - Objective data for decision-making, for accreditation, and for on-going excellence in a continuous improvement model are now a reality.

Brevity

Best practice for eWalkThrough® centers on a 3-5 minute observation. Enter a classroom and proceed to quickly and efficiently check for the identified priorities, the look-fors on your customized eWalkThrough® tool.

The point is to simply take a snapshot of what is going on in the classroom at that moment and then exit. No interruptions. No discussion. No adjustments.

Across time these snapshots will reveal patterns. Collectively, eWalkThrough® snapshots work together to form a panoramic picture of instruction in a district or school.

Routine

eWalkThrough® observations must become routine. Ideally, eWalkThrough® observation becomes habit for the observer. eWalkThrough® observation becomes typical procedure for the teacher. eWalkThrough® observation even becomes routine for the students.

When data are regularly and consistently collected, the results will be valid and reliable. These data support instructional leaders as they, in turn, support teachers.

Unannounced and Unobtrusive

Initially, teachers and students will notice when an observer enters the classroom. Behaviors will change. Authentic actions will be compromised.

eWalkThrough® observation should be unannounced and unobtrusive. Within weeks after the process is initiated, eWalkThroughs® will become more and more routine. Neither teachers, nor students will notice that an observation is being conducted. This is eWalkThrough® at its best.