Teachers could look for new ideas by watching how teaching in different regions with different resources and students organize their lessons. Members of the community could see how their school environment and resources compare to those of students in other regions. We need a closer relationship between teaching, research and development. The current separation evolved from past political and economic constraints on the structure of schooling. The development of communication tools and computer software makes new forms of partnership possible.
Teachers can be researchers, researchers can be designers, and designers can be teachers.
A community approach with differential skills produces a synergistic outcome. This shift requires a reorganization of teaching to enable teachers to work on teams. Teachers do not need to teach all day. In fact, they would be more powerful teachers if their teaching time was not so concentrated. Researchers need to work in schools to understand that decontextual randomization and control of variables often strip away the very processes that need to be studied.