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?
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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.
18. Performance Competence in the New Learning Infrastructure
Students once dropped through the cracks using a bell-shaped curve mentality are now omnipresent. For teachers to smugly give those students Ds and Fs no longer works.
17. Teaching Begins within the New Learning Infrastructure
Teaching is challenging because it involves the constant barrage of decision-making responsibilities. Analyses of a teaching day often reveal dozens of decisions a teacher makes every minute.
13. Translating Knowledge and Beliefs into Real Public-School Settings and Actions
Mastery means a student is fundamentally changed as evidenced by differences in perspective and behavior. It is not achieved quickly but requires soak time and reflection.
11. The Pursuit of Quality Learning Requires a Different Kind of Teaching Environment
American teachers are being ground down by overbearing bureaucracies that have reduced them to being pawns in the political and regulatory system.
10. Teacher Accountability as a Function of Academic Conviction, Depth and Purpose
The most challenging part is becoming more professionally assertive than I believed possible. To overcome my feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability in the face of change.
9. Curricular Precison: Tools and Skills in the New Learning Infrastructure
The unit outcome provides an overview of the complete intention for student learning. It connects all elements in ways that show they are contiguous and mutually necessary.
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