What If We Also Set Up Teachers for Success?

In addition to the previous blog, here is an article that is rather thought provoking. Here is a piece of it:
The foundation of what we do as educators is a belief in the human potential to learn, to get better, to grow. How can we embrace that belief when it comes to our children, yet reject it as unrealistic when it comes to our colleagues?

I understand the dilemma. There is a sense of urgency. Students are failing at alarming rates. Do we really have time to give a poorly performing teacher the space and support to get better?

But what if we treated teachers the way we wanted them to treat students? What if our improvement plans, rather than being the last stop on the way to unemployment, set up teachers to be successful in the classroom? What if we held teachers responsible for raising student achievement but gave them the tools and the support to do so? What if we really did believe that all children--and all adults--could learn?


Hmmmmmm, makes you think huh? Click here to read the rest of this article.