GLEAM® Learning Walks

Build your team’s understanding of grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful — GLEAM — instruction and how to monitor and assess growth.

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Ground Instructional Growth in Clear Data

Leaders of instructional change need tools to monitor and assess the progress. During GLEAM Learning Walks, our facilitators will work with you to define GLEAM, establish specific look-for’s, and identify opportunities to grow.

We collaborate with you for two or three consecutive days to help your team build the knowledge and skills needed to incorporate grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful — GLEAM — instruction in every classroom by rooting change in data.

During our time together, you and your team will:

  • Engage in professional learning focused on building mindsets and instructional skill sets to implement GLEAM instruction.
  • Learn how GLEAM works through classroom observation of English language arts and math classrooms using our Instruction Observation Tool.
  • Develop an action plan based on trends and recommendations from the data collected during the visit.
  • Receive a follow-up report sharing the data, trends, and recommendations from the visit.

What is GLEAM?

We root our GLEAM Learning Walks in the idea that all students should receive instruction that is grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful. Evidence shows that grade-level rigor and standards are important, but they’re not the only things that matter.

  • Grade-level: Instruction that is aligned with the grade-appropriate college and career standards.
  • Engaging: Instruction that fosters persistence, active learning, and academic agency by tapping into students’ assets.
  • Affirming: Instruction that builds a caring, collaborative classroom community by uplifting students’ identities and experiences in service of learning.
  • Meaningful: Instruction that cultivates civic agency and critical thinking by making learning relevant to issues students encounter beyond the classroom.

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Where Are You In Your GLEAM Journey?

GLEAM Journey

Who is this for?

This program is designed for educators who deliver and influence instruction, such as teachers, coaches, school leaders, and district instructional leaders. GLEAM Learning Walks may include up to 30 participants.

“The GLEAM tool...has transformed the way that we think and are approaching change in our district.”

EMILYS PEÑA, MALDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MASSACHUSETTS
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