VISITAS™

Goals: 

DLeNM’s VISITAS™ are informed by the book Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning (2009), as well as our expertise with the implementation of DLeNM’s 8 pathways of contextualized teaching and learning. The ultimate goal of VISITAS™ is two-fold: First, to develop an agreed upon working definition of “quality” sheltered instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) as well as other culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students and second, to provide teachers the requisite support to achieve high levels of effective quality sheltered instructional practice. DLeNM makes it a priority to ensure VISITAS™ are non-evaluative.

Process: 

Within the VISITAS™ process, a group of educators (teachers and administrators alike) engages in a specific practice of observing and discussing teaching and learning. As described in the book, Instructional Rounds in Education, “By practice, we mean something quite specific. We mean a set of protocols and processes used to improve student learning at scale.”