With the Common Core State Standards upon us it is as important as ever that school principals maximize all the time available to them to visit classrooms and give their teachers feedback. Principals average nearly 60 hours per week, but very little of that time is spent in classrooms. What little time is spent in classrooms rarely results in useful feedback. One recent study found that walk throughs without feedback has a negative impact on student achievement. This new iPad app from Think Strategy, LLC aims to reduce the time principals spend making observations leaving them more time to give useful feedback.

1. How much do
school
principals
work?

2. 58.1Average number of hours a
week a principal works.

3. 12.6%Average amount of time
spent on instructional
activities.

4. 5.4%Average amount of time
spent on classroom
observations

5. Walkthroughs are principals’
primary source of
information about teachers’
instructional practices.
-Grissom and Loeb 2013

6. Walkthroughs without
feedback were negatively
associated with student
achievement
Grissom and Loeb 2013

7. Schools may be better served if
principals spend more time
using the information for school
improvement than collecting it.
Grissom and Loeb 2013
Grissom and Loeb 2013

8. Spend less time
collecting
walkthrough
data and more
time giving
feedback when
you adopt the
CCSS Walk-
Through App
for iPad.

9. Elegant
dashboard
design.

10. User-friendly
buttons for
collecting
observations

11. Toggle easily
between
curriculum,
DOK, ELA
Shifts, and
Math Shifts

12. Aggregate
observations
and email
feedback to
teachers

14. Contact Information
Joe@think-strategy.net
@_ThinkStrategy
www.think-strategy.net