Site
Visits

Site visits give Changing Perspectives the opportunity to better understand and support your unique learning community. Each visit includes a 30-minute pre-visit planning call and a 30-minute post-visit call to discuss observations and next steps. Visits are tailored to your school’s goals and may include student focus groups, classroom observations, coteaching, needs assessments, and more. Changing Perspectives is onsite to support educators, students, and administrators in real time—making site visits a cornerstone of our commitment to fostering meaningful connections with schools worldwide.

•  Informal School Walk-Through & Assessment 
  Changing Perspectives staff will walk through the school site and evaluate strengths and areas‬ of opportunistic growth within specific focus guidelines.‬

•  Student Focus Groups 
  ‬Student focus groups are explicitly structured empathy interviews with a group of predetermined‬‭ students. The purpose of these groups is to collect valuable feedback from students on their‬‭ experiences at school. These focus groups are emotionally safe spaces for all students to share‬‭ their perspectives on the academic and/or social experience‬.

•  Educator Focus Groups 
  Educator focus groups are facilitated and targeted discussions to collect input, reflections,‬‭ perspectives, and feedback from educators. The purpose of these focus groups is to hear from‬‭ the educator’s perspective what is working well and the areas of continued growth at a specific‬‭ school site.‬

•  Office Hours  
  Office hours provide an opportunity for personalized guidance, real-world advice, and support‬ for educators. They can be structured with a premade schedule or more fluid, allowing‬‭ educators to drop in on a needs-by-need basis. The primary goal of office hours is to deliver‬‭ tailored support to educators, addressing their individual requirements effectively.‬

•  Structured Observations 
  ‭Changing Perspectives staff observe educators teaching, documenting, and assessing‬‭ instructional techniques, student engagement, and classroom dynamics within a predetermined‬‭ framework to offer targeted feedback and support for professional development.‬

•  Lesson Modeling  
  Changing Perspectives staff will teach a lesson to allow educators to observe the enhance their‬‭ own teaching practice by having the opportunity to watch.