Education Walkthrough is the platform K-12 instructional leaders use to conduct classroom walkthroughs and observations, share feedback with teachers, and see instructional trends across a school or district. Principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and district administrators use it on the web and on mobile.
First, what a walkthrough is
A walkthrough is a brief classroom visit, usually about 5 to 10 minutes. It happens alongside teachers, not as a gotcha. One visit is a snapshot, not a score.
The job in the room is to collect evidence of what students and teachers are actually doing, rather than to render a judgment. “Four students responded several times” is evidence. “This teacher has weak engagement” is a judgment. The evidence is what starts a coaching conversation.
A useful comparison. Hospitals have rounds, quick and frequent check-ins on how care is going, and they also have the annual physical, which is formal and scheduled. A walkthrough is rounds. An evaluation is the physical. Both matter, and they are not the same visit.
Cómo funciona
Build or choose a template. Templates hold your look-fors. Build your own in the Template Builder with multiple choice, checkbox, yes/no, text, rubric, and information question types, or start from frameworks in the template library.
Complete walkthroughs. Start a walkthrough, select the teacher and template, and capture what you see, ratings, comments, photos, and video, with a timer running. Drafts save automatically.
Share feedback instantly. Completed reports can be emailed to the teacher the moment you submit, with your signature and timestamp. Teachers get structured, consistent feedback they can act on.
Analyze the data. The Analyze Data page turns your walkthroughs into summaries, per-question results, and crosstables, so you can see growth over time and focus professional development where it matters.
Organized the Way Your System Is
Education Walkthrough mirrors your structure: regions contain districts, districts contain schools, and schools contain teachers. Reports stay organized by teacher, department, class, grade, and date, and each teacher profile aggregates their observation history.
What people actually use it for
A few of the ways instructional leaders put it to work.
- A principal doing weekly learning walks. Ten minutes in five classrooms on a Tuesday, feedback in each teacher’s inbox before lunch, and a picture by Friday of what is consistent across the building and what is not.
- An instructional coach running a coaching cycle. A group of eight teachers, observed on the same template across a semester, so the conversation is about their own trend rather than a single visit.
- A district administrator checking a rollout. A new curriculum went out in August. Filtering to that template shows which schools it is actually showing up in, and where support is needed.
- Peer observation between teachers. Teachers observing each other on a peer template, seeing only their own walkthroughs, so the exercise stays collegial.
- A leadership team preparing for a board meeting. Pulling a report that summarizes the semester, so the conversation runs on evidence rather than anecdote.
What it looks like
Every completed observation lands in one place, organized by teacher, school, department, grade and date.
Feedback goes to the teacher straight from the completed walkthrough, under your own name.
Once you have a few walkthroughs in, the data turns into something you can act on. See How to Use Analytics in Education Walkthrough for the live view and How to Create a Report for a document you can share.
Plans
Education Walkthrough has plans for every level, from a single observer to an entire region: Individual Premium, School Premium, District Premium, and Region Premium. See the plans overview to find your fit, or generate a quote in minutes.
Preguntas frecuentes
Is Education Walkthrough for evaluations?
It is built for walkthroughs and observations of all kinds, informal learning walks, peer observations, and formal frameworks alike. You control the template and the tone.
Do teachers need accounts?
No. Teachers receive their reports by email. Districts that want teachers to log in and see their own history can give them the School Staff role.