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Marinucci, Jackson County School District 9, Eagle Point, OR
 * **Mana'o** || **Resources** ||  ||
 * **All Leadership is Instructional Leadership:**
 * Focusing Everyone on Instructional Improvement,** Tina Mondale, Cynda Rickert, Lisa Yamashita, Heather

The handouts talk about one K-12 district's process of instituting administrator and teacher focus walks to align districtwide leaders with a common vision for instructional improvement. || ||  || Lihi Rosenthal, Seneca Center, San Leandro, CA
 * **Observable Change: a Story about Teacher Observation and**
 * Leadership Development**

The presenter works for a consulting firm tasked with created a systematic approach to teacher observation. Their process included training, preconferences, walkthroughs, observation scripts, post observation coaching sessions and evaluation || || || Walk-throughs done by teachers and for teachers are taking the lead in creating their own school's walk-through model. Highlighted in this session were video-clips and school stories about how teachers overcame the challenges to change their school culture which allowed them to take that lead to support one another in their professional growth. I would rename this "Teachers Supporting Teachers". || ||   || Joan Daly-Lewis, Socratic Solutions; Laura Seinfeld, Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools; Phyllis Harrington, Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central Schools; Gina Faust, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, Oyster Bay, NY
 * **Taking the Lead in Classroom Walk-throughs with Donald Kachur, Illinois State**
 * University and Claudia Edwards, Cameron University, Lawton, OK**
 * **Instructional Rounds and Walkthroughs: Informing Collective Action**

Instructional rounds and classroom walkthroughs provide ways of thinking and dynamic protocols for changing a school culture from one of isolation to collective action around improving student learning.

The schools used both Danielson and Marshall. || ||

|| More "how to" tested materials on using instructional rounds as one part of a comprehensive approach to improving schools. || ||  ||
 * **Instructional Rounds PLUS: A Comprehensive Approach** Corinne Eisenhart, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Newville