Date: November 27-28, 2007 8:30am - 3:30pm

*Light breakfast included

Location: LAPDA Meeting Space, 250 Main St, Montpelier

Cost: $395 for members $475 for non-members

Registration: http://www.lapdavt.org

Course Description

Change the entire school culture with this collaborative method of supervision.

For years, the classic supervision model has frustrated both principals and teachers by fostering superior-subordinate relationships, focusing on teacher conformity rather than growth, or producing checklist data that is irrelevant to the curriculum. The Three-Minute Classroom WalkThrough offers a practical, time-saving alternative that impacts student achievement by cultivating self-reliant teachers who are continuously improving their practice.

Easy to understand and adopt, this method will answer the questions most important to principals:

• Is the work of my teachers aligned with the district curriculum?
  
• Are my teachers using research-based “best practices”?
  
• Are they choosing the instructional strategies that will promote student achievement?
  

Also known as the Downey Walk-through, the method presented in The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through has been developed over a 40-year period, tested and refined in actual teaching environments, and taught internationally.

About the Presenter

Betty E. Steffy is a Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was formerly Dean of the School of Education at Indiana UniversityPurdue University, Fort Wayne. She has been a professor of educational leadership at Iowa State University where she coordinated the doctoral program. She has served as the Superintendent of Schools of Moorestown, New Jersey, and was Deputy Superintendent of Instruction in the Kentucky Department of Education during the fi rst years of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. She is the author or coauthor of ten books and has presented symposium papers at AERA and UCEA. She earned her B.A., M.A.T., and Ed.D. at the University oPittsburgh.

Betty Steffy is one of the co-authors of “The Three Minute Classroom Walk-Through” with Carolyn Downey