How would great teachers spend a time bonus?

By Alex Spurrier

September 24, 2015

This entire series of conversations with Fishman Prize winners is worth reading, but this passage stood out to me:

“In so many ways, these hierarchies we have put teachers at the bottom. But that almost entitles everyone who is above us, so to speak, to put tasks on our plate.”

It perfectly captures my feelings after reading The Allure of Order and Team of Teams: our highly bureaucratized school system is limiting the potential of our students and our educators. When we treat educators as implementers of top-down policies, we fail to benefit from their ground-level insights, making our education system too rigid to respond to the dynamic needs of students.

It’s time to consider a new approach.

Posted on:
September 24, 2015
Length:
1 minute read, 118 words
Tags:
team of teams teaching ed policy allure of order
See Also:
The World Turned Upside Down
Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
ESSA and the Administrative State