Instructional Rounds Plus — Lesson Observation & More

Are you certain you know good teaching when you see it? What is effective teaching? How do we know for certain what, how, and how much students are learning? What exactly do high quality classrooms and schools look like? Do all those in your school system share the same understanding?

Through his extensive work with Dr. Richard Elmore of Harvard University and years of work with networks of colleagues in classroom observation and analysis, Dr. Thomas Fowler-Finn has developed, implemented, tested, and refined a network approach to instructional leadership. Simply put, the Instructional Rounds model cultivates instructional leaders from within educational organizations and helps these leaders to understand and improve at scale the level and quality of teaching/learning.

The emphasis is on developing a “learning community” of instructional leadership for district administrators, principals, assistant principals, and teachers from which high quality teaching and learning is identified, deconstructed, and strategically developed in classrooms. The result is a focused and insightful approach to effective instructional leadership and teaching/learning excellence.

As facilitator, mentor, coach, and award-winning teacher and administrator, Dr. Fowler-Finn’s “network implementation” includes a variety of network implementation models, including working within one school system, working with the leadership of multiple schools or school systems, a “train the trainer” model, and other services streamlined to client needs,

Dr. Thomas Fowler-Finn has developed, implemented, tested, and refined a network approach to instructional leadership.