Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Making Time for Classroom Observation and Teacher Evaluation)

Justin Baeder, of the Principal Center

  • As instructional leaders there is no better way to lead than to be in classrooms.
  • It is tough to find time and make it into classrooms.
  • Being in classrooms that much sounds ridiculous and impossible.
  • Start small.
  • Just show up.

  • everyclassroom challenge, be in every classroom within a 5-day period.

  • Build up the practice over a period of cycles.
  • Just keep track of the order you visit people in, and visit them
  • Systems to keep track of visits.
  • Write the date you visit on their note card.
  • Repertoire - app for keeping track of visits.
  • The way we schedule to get into our classrooms is important.
  • The way of doing it must fit your style.
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