Teachers need to lead students. A leader takes ownership of obstacles and responsibility to find creative solutions so that students can make progress with their meaningful work.
If every other program in education was left exactly as it is, containing all of the flaws and problems that currently exist, but the quality of the average teacher was improved, students would greatly benefit. I believe that the benefit to students from such an approach would vastly outshine the benefits secure from fixing all of the problems that exist in textbooks, curriculum, and testing tools.
Conflict Navigation Have you ever wondered how a teacher modeling their interactions with students like an FBI agent would interact with a violent criminal could positively impact education? I didn’t think so. Let’s change that. But first, I think it will be important to change the likely images that came to mind when thinking of […]