Also today Diane wrote about Robin Williams performance in Dead Poets Society and aspiring to be the kind of teacher that changes lives and inspires students.
Yesterday she captured the thought process behind high stakes testing, data collection and pseudo accountability. Read the whole article here.
Those with this narrow, self-serving mindset accept that something is true without checking or affirming it. (i.e., Bad teachers are the problem). They claim to have hunches or insights that will correct problems. A woman who typifies this limited thinking is Michelle Rhee. She demonstrates a myopic way of thinking that is not productive. That is, if you threaten and hurt people they will get in line behind your assumptions or get out of your way. Bill and Melinda Gates are part of this way of thinking. If you devise tests that are designed to fail children and their teachers, you will motivate them and purge the profession – or so this tragic way of thinking plays out…..
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