Instructional Rounds

Collaborative Professional Learning Experiences: Instructional Rounds

Because we value the expertise of our colleagues next door, down the hall, and across the school, at OHS we prioritize learning with and from one another. A variety of job-embedded collaborative professional learning experiences help us sustain our school-wide culture focused on learning, and include:

Instructional Rounds

Collaborative Classroom Visits (CCVs)

Panther Pause

Instructional Rounds (City, etal) is based on the medical rounds process during which a network of professionals come together to collaboratively learn more about their practice. Participants in Instructional Rounds at OHS include school educators, district colleagues, and university partners. Twelve classrooms, that together represent our school as a whole, are visited by mixed travel groups, resulting in school-wide themes, grounded in classroom-based “noticings and wonderings,” aligned to the school’s theory of action. “Noticings” are descriptive evidence or data of what the students and/or teacher are doing or saying. “Wonderings,” based on noticings, are connected to the theory of action and form the foundation of the key themes that emerge from each instructional rounds session. School leaders are charged with using the themes as evidence of the theory of action in action as they plan next steps in the ever-evolving school-wide learning and work at OHS.

INSERT PICTURE OF COVER OF INSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDS IN EDUCATION (City, etal)

The first session of Instructional Rounds took place at OHS on March 16, 2017. Since that time sessions have been scheduled each semester. For the 2018-19 school year, fall rounds are planned for Tuesday, October 16, 2018, and spring rounds for Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Teachers participate first as classroom hosts and are then invited to experience rounds from the visitor perspective.

If you are interested in hosting visitors as part of instructional rounds or if you have questions at all, please complete the Google form linked below. If you would rather simply stop in and see us or email us to discuss Instructional Rounds, that would be just fine as well!

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