We have seen the limit of treating experienced teachers like they are dead wood. A bunch of schools in New York decided to hire young, excited, amazing young people from Brown and Wesleyan. And they're all really, really smart. Standards and standardization are the same. Standards are not the same as standardization.
Kids hold themselves accountable.
Standards are not the same as being the same. Professional development has to happen from the outside. That only the likes of David Tyack and me, and some of you, who can come in and make teachers smart. Teachers have an incredible amount of knowledge, if given the space to say what 20 years inside dysfunctional institutions has done to them. Tokenism will solve the problem.