The Classroom Operating System, Session 5
DAY FIVE: FRIDAY, JUNE 5 TESTING Does it work without you?
This is the question the whole week was built around. And today you find out.
Day Five is not a showcase. It is not a celebration before the real work starts. It is a genuine test: does what you built hold up when someone else looks at it, asks hard questions about it, and tries to imagine running your classroom from it without you?
This is the Gallery Walk. Twelve crews. Every teacher's work on display. And the job of your crew is not to be polite about it.
What we do: Your complete ClassroomOS, Source Code, Architecture, Scheduler, and Applications, goes up in the Gallery Walk. Other crews move through the work, engage with your Gem, read your sub plan, review your OS Overview, and give you structured peer feedback. You'll rotate through other teachers' systems and offer the same. By midday, every teacher in the cohort will have heard from three crews about what is working in their system and what is not ready yet.
Goals for the day: To stress-test your ClassroomOS against genuine peer review. To practice explaining your system to someone who doesn't already know your context. To identify the one thing you will refine before the school year begins. To leave with a completed OS Overview that any substitute, administrator, or parent can read and understand.
By the end of Day Five, you will have: Five completed deliverables. A finished OS Overview ready to share. Peer feedback that tells you exactly what your system communicates and what it still needs. And a classroom that does not depend on you being in it to function.
The question you leave with: You already know the answer.