105: Strength-based Instructional Rounds with Vicki Wilson

<p>Most teachers spend a career never seeing a colleague teach.<br /><br />Vicki Wilson, a former Michigan principal and author of "Lead with Instructional Rounds," set out to change that. In this episode, she and Krista unpack a deliberately non-evaluative, strength-based version of instructional rounds: short ten-minute visits, doors left open, and conversations that name what is working rather than what is wrong.</p><p>Vicki shares how she traded her evaluator hat for a facilitator hat, why she starts every round with agreements and an "admiration, not comparison" mindset, and how validating note cards tied to real impact build both self-efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. She tells the story of a young-fives teacher who watched a fourth-grade math lesson and reinvented it for four-year-olds, proof of what happens when educators finally get to learn from each other across grades and content.</p><p>If your school feels siloed, this conversation is a concrete map from isolation to collaboration.<br /><br />Connect with Vicki via <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-wilson-llc/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and her <a href="https://www.vickiwilson.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>