Tipping Point: From Feckless Reform to Substantive Instructional Improvement
Posted by on April 30, 2004
[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]
NEEDED: SUBSTANTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT
Even though we already know the best way to improve instruction, we persist in pursuing strategies that have repeatedly failed. Mike Schmoker urges us to break free of our addiction to strategic planning and large-scale reform. Current models of reform and improvement planning have failed, chiefly because they have very little impact on teaching or its improvement. To truly improve schools, we must modify or abandon these models in favor of a far better, proven strategy for promoting improvements in teaching: putting teachers in “learning communities” where they learn the complex craft of teaching from each other.
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