"Traveler, there is no road. The road is created as we walk it together."

Antonio Machado

"Lesson study encompasses a large family of instructional improvement strategies, the shared feature of which is observation of live classroom lessons by a group of teachers who collect data on teaching and learning and collaboratively analyze it."

Lesson study is professional development model that develops these practices:

• Educators involved in collaborative planning
• Educators discussing goals for students and content
• Educators researching available units, lessons and resources
• Educators building and implementing lessons together
• Educators observe lesson together
• Educators collect data from lessons
• Educators collaboratively analyze data
• Educators implement changes to practice to improve learning and teaching

The following resources introduce lesson study in more detail including some guiding questions for your team.