What is a LiveSchool Learning Walk?
Who participates in a LiveSchool Learning Walk?
What is the LiveSchool Learning Walk process?
What questions are considered during a Learning Walk?
What is a LiveSchool Learning Walk?
A LiveSchool Learning Walk is a brief classroom visit that specifically tracks how teachers are utilizing LiveSchool to provide points, rewards, and/or house points to their students.
A Learning Walk is NOT an evaluation. It helps both the school and the LiveSchool Team obtain a “snapshot” of the school culture systems in action.
Who participates in a LiveSchool Learning Walk?
A LiveSchool Learning Walk is usually led by a school leader, with other educators, school and district leaders, and LiveSchool Team Members in attendance.
What is the LiveSchool Learning Walk process?
Before the LiveSchool Learning Walk: 10 minutes
Assemble members of the LiveSchool Learning Walk Team. Identify the Learning Focus for the Walk, which classrooms will be visited, and why these classrooms have been selected. Have a short discussion on any evidence that will be identified to support the focus.
The Learning Focus might include how and when teachers are awarding points to students, how and when staff members are giving rewards for good behavior, and/or what house points and school-wide behavior competitions look like in action.
During the LiveSchool Learning Walk: 60 minutes (5 x 10 + 2)
Visit 5 classrooms for 10 minutes each. Have team members enter the classrooms ensuring a student-centered focus (i.e., with minimal disruptions possible).
Take notes about focus areas and meet together for a short (2-minute) debriefing after leaving each classroom.
After the LiveSchool Learning Walk: 20 minutes
Assemble members of the LiveSchool Learning Walk Team. Have everyone share their observations providing some evidence they collected and an overview of what they saw.
Optionally: Have school leaders share findings with the staff for discussion in an upcoming staff meeting(s).
What questions are considered during a Learning Walk?
Each LiveSchool Learning Walk Team member will be presented with a reflection sheet on which they can take notes about:
What commonalities emerged during the Learning Walk
What did you expect to see that you didn’t see during the Learning Walk?
Identify any new insights or understandings that resulted from the Learning Walk
Questions, Wonderings, or Surprises
People participating in Learning Walks will specifically be looking for:
How and when teachers are awarding points to students
How and when staff members are giving rewards for good behavior
What house points and school-wide behavior competitions look like in action