p. 260 Take the Lead
Advocate for Saner Teaching and Assessment Practices
Teachers can't be expected to be accountable if they are told specifically what to do. Accountability requires professional autonomy to do what's right. The best teachers are "not followers" and have an "independent spirit." ....they override directives when something else will work more effectively.
p. 280 Change happens one person at a time, one school at a time, but when it's lasting change (not the fake kind that comes from a teaching-to-the-test obsession), change brought about by hearts and minds working together as knowledgeable, caring colleagues, it has a very large ripple effect.
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2 comments:
Jera,
This was a great chapter with lots of super ideas and comments. :)
Change does happen one person at a time, and one school at a time. I think we are all in the beginning stages of that change. I'm still not sure what it will look like when we are "there", but I think we are starting to see a glimmer of what it may look like.
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