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28. Building a Meaningful Subject Area Mastery Statement

The heart of the new learning infrastructure is a curriculum designed to be substantive in terms of student mastery.

27. Expanded Thinking and Beliefs

Mary and Barbara are smart, insightful, well- prepared formally or informally, and female role-breakers. They are risk takers and appropriately ambitious. They are filled with vision and resolve.

26. Transformation Requires Leaving a Comfort Zone and Exploring the Unknown

Everything in human learning depends on communication. Science and math are no exception. Numbers, symbols, problem solving equations, research strategies, construction, and virtually everything else depends on being able to understand others through language.

25. Transformation: Who Teachers Become as Much as What They Do

Better able to engage with teachers much older and more experienced. Who, because of the process, were also being transformed.

24. Long Range Plan’s Influence on Subject Area Committee (SAC) Work

As leader and resource persons, our job was to help fellow committee members convert a passive curriculum into one that was focused, spiraled, teachable, and measurable.

23. Teacher Accountability is Both Essential and Multi-Layered

Teachers need the support of other teachers to help them improve everything from classroom management/discipline, to enlightening students academically, to stimulating their intellectual and emotional growth.

22. Accountability and Attention to Detail in the New Learning Infrastructure

While serving on other committees, I had been taught the “yes, and” principle. To allow myself to entertain reasons why someone else’s ideas had merit. Could ideas be made even better with a little tweaking?

21. Foundation-Laying in the New Learning Infrastructure

Unfettered enterprise and democracy are not mutually supportive. They co-exist in both positive and negative ways. A delicate balance.

20. Birthing the New Learning Infrastructure

It brought about focus and an understanding that the district’s academic program would be built and implemented on solid procedural and philosophical ground.

19. Mastery and Relevance in the New Learning Infrastructure

One irrefutable statistic is that 77% of American teachers are women. No definitive research has been conducted about the social class in which most of them grow up.