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Alachua County Board hears progress report on districtwide instructional overhaul
Summary
Superintendent Patton and partners outlined early gains from a district partnership with Instructional Empowerment — including weekly collaborative planning, district rigor walks and literacy‑specialist coaching — and set a three‑year implementation target while the board pressed for budget and staffing details.
Superintendent Patton opened the board workshop on April 1 by framing the district’s work as a multi‑year campaign to align instruction across Alachua County Public Schools and raise tier‑1 classroom practice.
Dr. Jennifer Rink of Instructional Empowerment described an integrated instructional framework that pairs two classroom‑visit tools — a “rigor walk” used for system‑level trend data and a “look and learn” used for targeted coaching and feedback. “The rigor walk serves as a continuous improvement tool that provides a common language and how we measure the impact of our instructional practices,” Rink said, explaining that the district’s coaches and literacy specialists use the metrics to guide immediate, actionable next steps.
Principals from several elementary schools told the board they have used rigor‑walk data to focus collaborative planning on standards alignment, question complexity and…
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