We don't want to just frustrate teachers more. Schools won't change unless they restructure the school day and week to build in more time for teachers to work together to improve their teaching. They have to be convinced and accommodated. But there are a whole host of people who don't understand why we need that time. We have to be bombarded with the change message.
People have to understand that there's no way out.
Continuity - We sat in on an early briefing about the district's plan to move to performance standards quickly over the next year. The answer,we thought, was a good one-if not completely satisfying for teachers who have to do bear the brunt of all this change. If you make this work, and kids are achieving more than they've ever achieved before, nobody will dare mess with it.