What if I don’t know exactly what a group was thinking? Should I still include it in the gallery walk? The purpose of the discussion of student work during the gallery walk is not to figure out, with absolute certainty, what a group was thinking. The goal is to use their work, the traces of their thinking, to get the whole class to think and explain. So, not knowing exactly what a group was thinking is OK. But if you do want to know, you can always ask them prior to the start of the consolidation.

