I maintain a strong belief that all children can learn at high levels of accomplishment. Many of our schools today are failing our children. We can not continue to perpetuate or defend schools to which you would not send your children to. Schools must be redesigned to reach those higher standards. Today, less than half of our students can achieve the new state standards we have adopted for the Certificate of Initial Mastery.
Many educators know how to create good schools.
But it can t occur one school at a time, school by school. We need to achieve a level of common practice everywhere. The change must be systemic. What seems to be missing is an ordered process for strategic change. The redesign process so familiar in industry, which includes research, development, dissemination, and refinement has no counterpart in many of our schools or districts.