Literacy Look-Fors: An Observation Protocol to Guide K–6 Classroom Walkthroughs, July/2011

Through a unique seven-step process, administrators and literacy leaders will gain a solid understanding of how to assess and build instructional capacity, overcome roadblocks, develop professional growth opportunities, and create a balanced literacy program. Learn how to identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.

Benefits

1. Learn a step-by-step process for conducting walkthroughs and effectively implementing the literacy look-fors.
2. Explore the 60 look-fors.
3. Examine how to customize an orientation program to introduce the faculty to the look-fors and walkthroughs.
4. Review a Q&A section that answers the questions most often asked by principals before, during, and after the implementation of the walkthrough model.

About The Author:
Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins, EdD, is a consultant who has served as a teacher, a librarian, a principal, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts.

Dr. McEwan-Adkins has been honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the 1991 National Distinguished Principal from Illinois.

Dr. McEwan-Adkins is the author of more than 35 books for parents and educators. Her titles include Teach Them All to Read; and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools.

She received an undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and a master’s degree in library science and a doctorate in educational administration from Northern Illinois University.