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Any educator interested in, leading or taking part in a Learning Round should join the LR online community on Glow. Here you will find:

• colleagues in the same boat as you!
• resources to organise a learning round
• where learning rounds are taking place

To take part in this community, you must commit to:

• introducing yourself online
• contribute in some way to the resource bank

To join this community, send an email to stepin@ltscotland.org.uk with your name and Glow username (eg gw09lennierounds). Susan our online CPD administrator will email you with a link.

Learning Rounds is a new kind of collaborative professional learning. It involves teams of staff observing and learning about and from school practice. Observers create a base of evidence describing what they have seen. There are no evaluative comments or value-laden points. The team then discusses how they, their school or authority will use the data to bring about improvement.

This evidence-based process leads to a continuous development of practice at personal, school and authority level. Staff learn together and both those observed and those observing develop and deepen their understanding of how to improve learning. As importantly, the process creates descriptive  evidence that can generate effective change  across a school or authority.

You can find out more in the Learning Rounds category of the CPD Team blog and on the SCSSA website.

To help support this important CPD initiative, the National CPD Team have set up a community on Glow. Here you will be able to access the Learning Rounds toolkit, get in touch with other LR colleagues and ask direct questions of the National CPD Team. 

See the ‘Change here for…‘ section of CPDCentral for more details.