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Leadership for Powerful Instruction
Principal in Seattle, WA
(% of students meeting state standard)
5 Dimensions
of Central Office
Transformation
*Differentiating supports…
*Modeling…
*Developing & using“tools”…
*Brokering resources…
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*Modeling…
*Developing & using“tools”…
*Brokering resources…
*Differentiating supports…
*Modeling…
*Developing & using“tools”…
*Brokering resources…
Progress is definitely happening at LWL! Leo, Julie, Leo’s Cal coach Lottye
school need Clayton, network EL coach Angie Foo, network literacy coach Pia Jara, and
OUSD HR director Delia Ruiz toured classroom today. Sticking with your
instructional focus, we were looking at the fluency time you have been
implementing and workshop time. Structures and routines are clearly in place
for workshop….the students knew what to do and systems were organized
within the classroom.
classrooms
equity sticks, think-pair-share, echo and extending, reward systems, and hand signals.
· We observed well-organized and visually appealing classroom libraries being used.
· Observed some teachers being metacognative with their students: debriefing skills learned with students
and coaching next steps, encouraging all students to be reflective learners.
Some questions based on the walk-throughs:
· How can we make sure that the level of the ‘must do’ and ‘may do’ activities are rigorous and at grade-level
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and include an accountability aspect for the students?
Immediate letter to staff · After lessons and activities, including after workshop and fluency practice, how can every teacher
consistently be metacognative with their students, reviewing what they’ve learned, helping them reflect,
noticing what they are doing well and what skills they are learning?
You are making great strides, but don’t change course. Keep using pictorial charts and other frontloading techniques to
highlight academic langue. Keep working on refining the fluency practice and making workshop more rigorous, more
focused on the OCR lesson, and at the students’ developmental level. I know that you will continue to improve based on
• One-on-one with principal at your stellar attitude and willingness to learn as a staff and I look forward to seeing you at my next visit on February 13th.
Have a great winter break and enjoy some rest and fun with family and friends!
end of visit
Leadership for Powerful Instruction
Team Collaboration
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(four minutes & forty-five seconds)
*Modeling…
*Developing & using“tools”…
*Brokering resources…