To have those kinds of teachers we need to prepare them, universities
and districts need to take teacher preparation
seriously, State Departments of Higher Education
and of Elementary
and Secondary Education need to see teacher preparation
and support as one of the most important strategic options to
improve education, holding teacher preparation institutions
and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation
and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers
learn what so many of them say they need to
learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their
teaching, how to implement culturally responsive instruction.