Inspired by the medical-rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching.

Why professional networks? Why rounds? Why practice? -- Building Blocks -- The instructional core -- Theories of action -- Doing Rounds -- Launching a network -- Learning to see, unlearning to judge -- Doing rounds part 1: problem of practice and observing -- Doing rounds part 2: debriefing and the next level of work -- Facilitating rounds -- Rounds and Systematic Improvement -- Learning from rounds -- Moving from rounds to large-scale improvements in practice -- A professsion in search of a practice -- Sample network documents.