District & Building Leaders will receive all communication to be shared with staff. They will have the opportunity to approve all learning walk hosts and visits.
SyraFuse Fellows will lead information sessions for hosts and visitors to explain the process and encourage participation. They will act as information liaisons and support interested staff members with logistics.
The PL Team will create all information session materials, generate a district-wide calendar with all available visits, relevant details, and registration links. They will support all hosts and visitors throughout the process.
Hosting Teachers will open their classroom for a virtual visit via a Teams Meeting on a self-selected date and time between March 8 - March 26, 2021. Visits can be as brief as 15 minutes or as long as an entire lesson and should focus on a practice, strategy, or tool that has successfully engaged students in learning this year. Hosts will earn one hour extension of service for completing a self-paced module in which they will be trained to create a Sign-Up Genius event to share the details of the visit and limit the number of participants. Hosts will complete this proposal form to communicate their interest. They will monitor their own registrations in Sign-Up Genius and follow up by email to provide their registered visitors with the information and links they need to successfully join the class at the designated time. Hosts will schedule, communicate, and facilitate a paid/synchronous debrief session after school hours to discuss the visit with their visitors. They will also schedule, communicate, and facilitate a paid/synchronous collaboration session approximately one month after the learning walk to allow their visitors to share their own implementations.
Visiting Teachers will receive the Learning Walk Calendar for March 8 - March 26, 2021. All SCSD staff will be able to use the details and Sign-Up Genius links to select the classrooms they would like to visit based on their own professional learning needs and interests. They will monitor their email for an invitation from the host teacher prior to the selected visit. Visitors will also have the opportunity to participate in the paid/synchronous debrief and collaboration sessions facilitated by hosts.
All Participants will be expected to complete a feedback survey to inform future planning. They will also be invited to participate in a paid/self-paced professional development module to continue collaborating around best practices and to demonstrate how they used what they observed during learning walks to inform and enhance their own instructional practice.
