ABSTRACT
While in a classroom, the principal should strive to keep “one eye on the teacher and the other eye on the students” a maxim I adopted only after years of conducting informal and formal classroom observations. Through time in the field, I marvel when principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and other support personnel come to realize that classroom observations are about studying how
students react to instruction;
students respond as they are learning “X” from their teachers or interactions with other students; and
students, teachers, and content knowledge interact-this is learning!
