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Learning Walk Collaboration Pilot Timeline

Date
June 25, 2015

June 26- July 12, 2015

August 27, 2015

August 28, 2015

September 4, 2015

September 5-20, 2015

September 12, 2015

Action
Develop Expeditionary Learning
baseline survey to administer to
teachers upon the opening of the school
year in August
Develop Expeditionary Learning Pacing
Guides
o Small teacher leader groups
o School-based instructional
coaches
o District-based instructional
coaches
o Expeditionary Learning
consultant for New Merhartbury
Schools
In-house PD on Expeditionary Learning
o Review professional learning that
happened in April and June 2015
around the new EL curriculum
Survey classroom teachers
o Comfort level implementing EL
curriculum
o Identify areas of need for
professional learning
opportunities
Identify two schools for a partnership
One school must be in Year 2, or beyond,
of EL implementation and the other
school will be Year 1 of implementation
Coordinate with Expeditionary Learning
Consultant on four dates (two in the Fall
semester and two in the Spring
semester) that he/she will be able to
come to each identified school
In-house learning walks commence
o On-going
o Once per week with
coaches/administration
o Bi-weekly include different
classroom teachers

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September 21, 2015

October 12, 2015

October 19, 2015

October 20, 2015

o Follow-up each learning walk

with a debrief and feedback letter
to staff
o Incorporate this information into
data team meetings and coaching
cycles
Collaboration meetingInstructional coaches from each school
and one administrator meet to set dates.
Each school will have one Fall and one
Spring visit.
o Create a schedule for the learning
walks
o Arrange for substitutes for all
classroom teachers involved
o Arrange for lunches to be
provided.
o Review feedback from survey
given to classroom teachers
o Begin to think about possible
instructional goals based on
feedback and learning walk
observations
First visit at New Merhartbury
o Set focus for learning walk
o Collect data
o Debrief on major trends
o Provide feedback to participating
educators
First visit at Neighboring Academy
o Follow same protocols
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Identify instructional goals for
each school based on debrief
feedback and results of teacher
survey
o Identify dates for in-house
learning walks and how feedback
will be shared between schools
o Identify educators who are
willing to participate in creating a

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October 23, 2015

October 25, 2015

November 1, 2015

November 3, 2015

November 5, 2015-November 25, 2015

video library for intra-district use

Debrief feedback from learning walks
with staff at data team meetings
throughout the week
o Create next steps with individual
teams based on feedback
o Follow-up with next steps at
coaching sessions
Meet with teachers who have
volunteered to help create our video
library
o Determine who will focus on a
given protocol
o Set filming dates
o Set editing dates
o Set previewing dates
o Set release dates
Staff Meeting to discuss the creation of
the video library
o How to access
o Expectations in regards to
coaching cycles
o Technology to be used (i.e.
VoiceThreads, Vimeo, etc.)
District and school-based coaches meet
from both schools to discuss trends
emerging from ongoing in-house
learning walks
o Specify protocols that should be
captured as part of video library
o Specify lessons that will be filmed
for video library (that contain
these protocols)
o Match teachers to specific lessons
o Set initial film dates, review by
colleagues and re-shoot days, if
necessary
Film specified lessons/protocols at
November 3rd meeting
o In-house coaches meet with
teachers who were filmed to
debrief the video footage during

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November 26, 2015

December 1-10, 2015

December 8, 2015

December 10, 2015

December 11, 2015

December 12, 2015

specified coaching meetings

o Share footage with select teacher
teams for feedback
o Re-shoot lessons/protocols, when
necessary, based on coaching and
small group session feedback
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Review footage from each school
o Calibrate coaching feedback
based on video footage
o Select clip for final phases of
editing from each school
Library Media Specialist and
Instructional Coach collaboration
meeting
o Meet during seven sessions to
edit video clips
o Film teacher feedback and
rationale of lesson he/she gave
o Embed text/rationale for viewers
o Embed teacher
discussion/debrief of lesson parts
for final clip
Second visit at New Merhartbury
o Set focus for learning walk
o Collect data
o Debrief on major trends
o Provide feedback to participating
educators
Second visit at Neighboring Academy
o Follow same protocols
Debrief feedback from learning walks
with staff at data team meetings
throughout the week
o Create next steps with individual
teams based on feedback
o Follow-up with next steps at
coaching sessions
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o View final videos
o Create agenda for staff roll-out at

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December 13, 2015

December 14, 2015- February 1, 2016

January 20, 2016

February 1, 2016

February 3, 2015
February 4, 2015

February 5, 2016

staff meeting on December 13th at

each school
Roll-out video library to staff during
Staff Meeting
o How to locate this section
o How to best utilize this
information
o Expectations going forward
Collegial conversations
around footage
Incorporating practices
into coaching sessions
o How to get involved in filming
next for the next cycle
Incorporate the viewing and debrief of
Expeditionary Learning implementation
through our video library with our
continuing in-house learning walks and
coaching cycles
Survey classroom teachers again
o Comfort level implementing EL
curriculum
o Identify areas of need for
professional learning
opportunities
Third visit at New Merhartbury
o Set focus for learning walk
o Collect data
o Debrief on major trends
o Provide feedback to participating
educators
Third visit at Neighboring Academy
o Follow same protocols
Debrief feedback from learning walks
with staff at data team meetings
throughout the week
o Create next steps with individual
teams based on feedback
o Follow-up with next steps at
coaching sessions
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Set dates for second cycle of

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February 6, 2016- March 2, 2016

March 4, 2016

filming
o Lessons/protocols that still need
to be captured
o Review instructional goals for
each school based on debrief
feedback, revise as necessary
o Review upcoming dates for inhouse learning walks and how
feedback has been shared
between schools, revise if
necessary
o Identify educators who are
willing to participate in creating a
video library for intra-district use
for our second cycle
o Review feedback from EL teacher
survey
Film specified lessons/protocols at
February 5th meeting
o In-house coaches meet with
teachers who were filmed to
debrief the video footage during
specified coaching meetings
o Share footage with select teacher
teams for feedback
o Re-shoot lessons/protocols, when
necessary, based on coaching and
small group session feedback
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Review footage from each school
o Calibrate coaching feedback
based on video footage
o Select clip for final phases of
editing from each school
o Review instructional goals for
each school based on debrief
feedback, revise as necessary
o Review upcoming dates for inhouse learning walks and how
feedback has been shared
between schools, revise if
necessary

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March 5-15, 2015

March 16, 2016

March 18, 2016

April 2, 2016

April 4, 2016
April 5, 2016

Library Media Specialist and

Instructional Coach collaboration
meeting
o Meet during five sessions to edit
video clips, more as needed
o Film teacher feedback and
rationale of lesson he/she gave
o Embed text/rationale for viewers
o Embed teacher
discussion/debrief of lesson parts
for final clip
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o View final videos from second
filming cycle
o Calibrate coaching feedback
based on these examples
o Review instructional goals for
each school based on debrief
feedback, revise as necessary
o Review upcoming dates for inhouse learning walks and how
feedback has been shared
between schools, revise if
necessary
Staff Meeting
o Review additional video footage
added to our library
Fourth/final visit at New Merhartbury
o Set focus for learning walk
o Collect data
o Debrief on major trends
o Provide feedback to participating
educators
Final visit at Neighboring Academy
o Follow same protocols
Debrief feedback from learning walks
with staff at data team meetings
throughout the week
o Create next steps with individual
teams based on feedback
o Follow-up with next steps at

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April 8, 2016

April 11-18, 2016

April 20, 2016

April 28- June 6, 2016

June 8-12, 2016
Meet in 3 sessions

coaching sessions
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Review instructional goals for
each school based on previous
sessions
o Identify final dates for in-house
learning walks and how feedback
will be shared between schools
o Set final collaboration meeting
o Set date for final teacher survey
of EL implementation
Spring Break
Survey classroom teachers
o Comfort level implementing EL
curriculum
o Identify areas of need for
continued professional learning
opportunities
o Identify areas of support given
throughout this year and rank
which supports were most
helpful/effective and which were
not
NWEA MAP/SBAC testing window
Collaboration Meeting with Neighboring
Academy
o Review feedback from teacher
survey
o Review preliminary MAP data
and compare to Fall and Winter
scores
o Review and close out identified
instructional goals set as the
result of previous collaboration
meetings
o Determine trends and impact of
professional learning support
plan by looking at:
video library (from
teacher survey, # of
views)
MAP data (percentage of

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June 16, 2016

students scoring at or
above proficiency from
Fall to Spring)
Impact of learning walks
and collegial
conversations stemming
from the learning walks
(from teacher survey)
The feedback given to staff
as a result of learning
walks (from teacher
survey)
Review videos currently in our
video library
Make recommendations
for those we wish to add
or replace
Revise professional learning
action plan based on data analysis
of the sources listed above
Create a presentation for Central
Office staff based on the results of
this professional learning plan
Present results/impact of the
2015-16 professional learning
plan to Central Office Staff
including Superintendent of
Schools (developed at
collaboration meetings June 812th)
Present revised professional
learning action plan for 2016-17
academic year