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Greenlight Learning Walks

1/10/2018

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Submitted by Niamh McQuillan 
S.T.A.T. Teacher, 
Windsor Mill Middle
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​At Windsor Mill Middle School, Greenlight Learning Walks are the new Pineapple Charts. Last year, Discovery Ed Coach, Dawn Bray, suggested a Greenlight system she saw at a school in Bloomington, Indiana where teachers posted a green light outside their doors when they wanted faculty and staff to drop in and see the innovative things happening in their classrooms. WMMS Inquiry-Team Facilitators mapped out the logistics of what the Greenlight plan could look like with the school’s PLCs, i.e. Inquiry Teams, and came up with the idea of Greenlight Learning Walks. Between December and January, each of the three Inquiry Teams has a two-week window exclusive to their team where they open their doors to showcase an activity or strategy they have learned during Inquiry-Team PD. The times and dates for the Learning Walks are posted on a calendar in the hallway. All teachers will both host and visit one Greenlight Learning Walk by the end of January. Beginning in February any teacher can then host or visit a Greenlight Learning Walk at any time. Physical Education Department Chair Natalie Crenshaw is on the Project-Based Learning Inquiry Team and opened her doors in December for visitors to see the work students did this quarter designing and teaching units from the Health curriculum. Crenshaw said, “It was helpful to have other professionals come in to my classroom and give me positive feedback. It gave me more confidence as a teacher to know that other professionals will take something away to use in their lessons.”
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