Beyond Compliance: Transforming Classroom Walkthroughs into Coaching Conversations
This session equips instructional leaders to use classroom walkthroughs as a lever for better instruction and relationships.
8:00 AM - 8:45 AMWed
Leadership Strand
Speakers
Joanna Perkins
Director of K-12 Curriculum Support
Montgomery County Schools, NC
Participants will distinguish compliance checks from coaching, identify evidence-based look-fors, script objective observations, and deliver concise, growth-focused feedback using simple two-way communication tools. They will leave able to design a streamlined walkthrough tool, plan a feedback cycle, and use strategies that build teacher trust and capacity. The session moves from brief research to time for collaborative planning.