Reflective Friends This year we are going to every one of our secondary schools collecting data about 21st century skills (as we’ve defined them). We did this last year, but with only 3 schools. It was interesting then, it’s pretty wild now to see and do it at scale. We go into schools with an outside teamRight now we use our Dell contract PD days to hire outside consultants. I highly recommend Blanca Duarte, Amos Fodchuck, and Chris Dunning. They are good people. 20 45 minute observations using this google form based around our TIPC. Teachers know we are coming. They are supposed to do their best 21st century lesson. The rationale here is that we want to know if the county vision of 21st century skills is understood and if teachers can do it. It also removes any issues like “Oh, today’s my testing day . . . if you’d have been here yesterday . . . ” etc. Once we have widespread understanding and the ability to implement it, we can then start doing random visits to see if it is being implemented regularly. 2 interviews with separate groups of teachers 2 interviews with separate groups of students All this data is then consolidated and presented to the school’s leadership team (usually about a week after the observations). […]