Allowing practitioners to design and
lead change in the school system is increasingly the way that successful systems across the world are approaching educational reform.
«We need the involvement of people whose children actually attend the schools and people in the community in which these children are growing up if we are to bring about
lasting changes in our school system,» he says.
Proposals for
enormous changes in the school system have always been a feature during times of economic crisis, but you have to stop and catch your breath at times when some of the more «throw the baby out with the bathwater» schemes get a serious airing from our self - appointed «out of the box» thinkers on education «reform,» or, as one of our local school board candidates would prefer, «transformation.»
While more teachers need to be prepared to work in schools with differentiated roles as more opportunities arise, change in teacher preparation programs must drive, or at least parallel,
sweeping changes in school systems.
Speaking on the issue of
climate change in the school system: «I can assure you, that's one thing that, hand - in - hand, Scott Pruitt and I are going to try to do something to save our next generation.»
But the most central reason why teachers» ownership of the profession is a must - have rather than an optional extra, lies in the pace
of change in school systems.
The changes in the school system needed to be fundamental — and calibrated specifically to the needs of the local population.
Two and a half years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa left his office steering the nation's second - largest city with a legacy of pushing the kind of
changes in the school system that education reformers relish.