The standards movement of the last three decades, with its patchwork approach to school improvement, made it difficult to succinctly identify a purpose for American public schools.
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32. Impact of the Subject Area Mastery in Language Arts
These schools recognize that how to read, write, and mathematically compute is critical to everything else in the curriculum. These skills are essential to communicate and create. The ability to read, write, and calculate helps us become better citizens, family members, and workers.
31. Subject Area Mastery Statement – Structure for Discussion
A social dance we perform with each other until something unexpected intercedes. Or insight and reflection give us a different perspective. We authentically change our outlook and behavior because something in our brain is triggered internally.
30. Causing REAL CHANGE: Difficult and Exacting Work
For students to think deeply in applied circumstances, the curriculum in which they participate must give them time and opportunity to do just that
29. Controversies about the Subject Area Mastery Statement
Teaching and learning a more impactful and significant curriculum would mean changes in priorities and the techniques needed to meet them.
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.
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.
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