Research on Walkthroughs

From the book, Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs, we learn of many purposes of school and district Walkthroughs. Here are a couple of summarizations on Walkthroughs and Instructional Rounds:

"...creating a culture in every school whereby all staff members learn from one another. Walkthroughs [are] considered a learning process to enable teachers to identify the instructional areas they wanted to improve and identify practices to implement in their own classrooms." 

"...instructional rounds in which small groups of teachers [from various places possibly] make brief observations of their fellow teachers for the primary purpose of comparing and improving their practice."

Walkthroughs and Rounds are definitely something we should look forward to as teachers!