Instructional Rounds in Education
Four experts on education leadership propose a new professional learning model called instructional rounds -- an approach Michael Fullan says "redefines the teaching profession."
Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning targets educators who want to improve instructional delivery and its support, based on the medical-rounds model used in the medical field.
Co-author Elizabeth City is Director of Instructional Strategy at Harvard University's Executive Leadership Program for Educators and a faculty member at Boston's School Leadership Institute; Richard Elmore is a Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard; Sarah Fiarman is an interim principal at Martin Luther King, Jr. School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Lee Teitel is a faculty senior associate at Harvard's Executive Leadership Program for Educators.
The following is from Harvard Education Press:
"Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms—much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before—educate all students to high levels—yet we don’t know how to do that in every classroom for every child.
This book is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Inspired by the medical-rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching."
"Listen up! Instructional Rounds redefines the teaching profession. There is no other book on school improvement like it. This is a powerful, specific, accessible treatment of what it means to get in the classroom in order to make a difference in the daily lives of teachers and their students." —Michael Fullan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
"At last, we have a book that moves school and district leaders closer to the classroom. The authors challenge the myth of leadership as an isolated, hierarchical exercise focused on grand plans and visions and bring us back where we belong—amid the complex reality of students' and teachers' daily lives. Full of practical, specific, and compelling evidence, Instructional Rounds in Education will have a profound influence on educational leaders who are willing to invest the time to observe, listen, and learn." —Douglas B. Reeves, founder, The Leadership and Learning Center.
Also on the Bookshelf:
- The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond
- See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers by Roxanna Elden
