Like the Velveteen Rabbit, they're becoming a bit frayed around the edges as they struggle through their long and important journey to make middle schools work for all kids. DeBoe needs time to learn new teaching techniques through intensive professional development. Time to share what he is learning with colleagues back at his school. Time to create engaging lessons for his students and to devise better ways to measure their progress. Time to collect the resources students need to learn in new ways.
Educators feel overwhelmed as they face their daily rush to survive.
Volume is the enemy. Struggling to find solutions to time's mysteries, schools soon discover many factors beyond their control. Adding faculty and increasing school budgets are often out of reach. There's no magic wand handy, but there is hope. Schools have untapped potential to create time within existing resources.