Walkthrough protocols
Short, focused look-for protocols for frequent, low-stakes classroom visits.
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📂 Resources
Resources
A professional resource library for instructional leaders — protocols, rubrics, and templates that put the framework into daily practice. Each card represents an illustrative template you can adapt to your school's context.
Protocols & templates
Observation rubrics
Domain-based rubrics with descriptive levels to keep observations calibrated.
Template →Coaching-cycle templates
Pre-conference, observation, reflection, and action-plan structures for full cycles.
Template →Feedback guides
Strength-based, single-next-step feedback frames that drive growth, not compliance.
Template →PLC protocols
Agendas and norms for collaborative teams focused on learning and results.
Template →Lesson-study guide
A step-by-step guide for collaborative planning, observation, and debrief of a research lesson.
Template →Data-conversation protocols
Structured routines that move teams from noticing to wondering to action.
Template →Student-work analysis
Protocols for examining student work to calibrate expectations and plan next steps.
Template →Curriculum-alignment templates
Tools to map standards, assessments, and instruction for coherence and rigor.
Template →Reading list
Curated professional reading on instructional leadership and the learning sciences.
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Research Foundation
These tools operationalize instructional-leadership theory, adult-learning principles, Visible Learning, instructional-coaching research, and the PLC tradition — so daily routines reflect what the evidence says builds and retains effective teachers. All resources here are illustrative templates, not endorsed products.
Recommended reading
General professional themes in instructional leadership and the learning sciences (illustrative — not specific citations).
Instructional coaching & teacher growthHow coaching cycles, modeling, and reflective conversation develop practice.
Coaching
Visible learning & high-impact practiceWhat the evidence suggests has the greatest effect on student learning.
Impact
Professional learning communitiesBuilding collaborative teams around a relentless focus on learning.
PLC
Adult learning & teacher developmentDesigning professional learning that respects how adults actually learn.
Adult learning
Data-informed improvementUsing inquiry cycles and evidence to drive instructional decisions.
Data
Leadership for learningHow instructional leaders set vision, culture, and direction for teaching.
Leadership
Everything in this library is an illustrative template created for portfolio demonstration. Adapt freely to your own context.