Breaking Through To Effective Teaching
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Breaking Through to Effectice Teaching discusses the Walk-Through protocol, which provides both a process and a tool for inquiry-based professional development, community engagement, and ultimately, student self-direction. It starts with a school's commitment to build an inquiry model that assumes the capacity for extraordinary learning on the part of students, teachers, administrators, and families. This protocol can be employed narrowly-to guide teachers with a passion for biology, for example-or more broadly. Many of the improving schools chose the Walk-Through protocol as a framework for schoolwide professional development that led to exceptional growth in learning and student achievement. This process allows schools to create a community where all members approach learning as an inquiry and are proactive designers of their success.About the Author:Patricia Martinez-Miller is one of the founding members of the UCLA School Management Program
Preface 6Introduction 9Why Walk-Throughs? 13Building on our own best practice 14Why this is a different approach 17How the Walk-Through protocol supports success 18When are schools ready for the Walk-Through protocol? 19How do administrators participate? 20Why the Walk-Through protocol works 21Nuts and Bolts of the Smp Walk-Through Protocol 22Why a protocol for walking through classrooms? 23What is the protocol? 24Walk-Throughs as a Catalyst for School Improvement 43Building on and sustaining positive change 51Using Walk-Through Protocols to Sustain a Professional Learning Community 55The setting 56The mission and goals 58Using the protocol to create a community 58The first six months 60The second six months 61An evolving culture 66Using Walk-Through Protocols to Improve Instruction 69The setting 70The Mission and Goals 71Getting Started 72After the first year 74Evidence of Improving Instruction 77Using Walk-Through Protocols to Unify a District-Wide Culture of Student Achievement 79The setting 79The Mission and Goals 82Using the Walk-Through protocol to enhance inquiry in a professional learning community 83Getting Started 84Building capacity throughout the district 87An evolving tool in an evolving culture 89Sample, Three-Day Training Agenda 93Developing Group Norms 97A Sample Activity for Determining Next Steps 99About the Authors 101
