09/01/2026
🦁🦅 Learning Walks: Keeping Our Eyes on Student Learning!
At Thomas E. Kerns Elementary and Alexander Elementary, we are continuing to put our feet in classrooms, our eyes on instruction, and—most importantly—our focus on student learning.
Our Learning Walks are not about simply checking for compliance. They are about asking critical questions:
🔎 What are students learning?
🎯 Is the learning aligned to grade-level standards?
💬 Are students thinking, explaining, questioning, and engaging in meaningful work?
🧠 What scaffolds and supports ensure every student can access rigorous learning?
📈 How do teachers know students are learning—and what will they do next?
At Thomas E. Kerns, we saw strong evidence of learning targets connected to instruction, purposeful questioning, student writing and thinking, interactive supports, student explanations, and accountability through exit tickets.
At Alexander, we saw strong classroom culture, grade-level learning, student engagement, differentiation, purposeful small groups, and growing opportunities for student discourse and deeper questioning.
The next move? Go deeper. Through ILT work, PLCs, coaching, and continued Learning Walks, we will sharpen teacher clarity, success criteria, differentiation, and the gradual release of responsibility so that students increasingly own their learning.
Because transformation is not simply about what adults are doing.
It is about what students are learning, how deeply they are learning, and whether that learning is changing their trajectory.
🦁 Kerns: Wild About Learning.
🦅 Alexander: One School. One Goal.
Transformation in action. Focused on students. Focused on results.
