Grand Rounds at Woods

If I say the phrase, "Grand Rounds" to you, I wonder what image comes to mind?  No doubt, some of you might conjure a tasty thought of this . . .

Indeed, I have family members who refer to those Pillsbury biscuits as Grand Rounds.

More sophisticated readers (perhaps?) might have in their mind the famous medical school tradition whereby doctors circulate together in groups to interview and discuss patients as part of the doctors' training and education, on the lines of this . .  . 

This year at Woods, when we say, "Grand Rounds," we mean something more like this . . .

Returning from Grand Rounds debrief.

One of our new initiatives for this year (which we're calling Grand Rounds, taking a cue from the med school tradition) involves teachers from each of the divisions spending their day rotating as a group to other classrooms around school to observe other colleagues and students in action.

Our purposes: 

1) to learn from each other’s practices,

2) to connect with teachers from other divisions,

3) to increase awareness of what other colleagues are doing in their day-to-day instruction, and

4) to gain perspective on student experience across division.