So they're skeptical about change and understandably skeptical. But you have to get them over that hurdle. And once they begin to believe that the change is necessary and desirable and that it will improve their working lives, they will begin to make the changes with some enthusiasm and excitement and move briskly ahead. That's what we have discovered as we work with school districts around the country. It requires a lot of formal training, which is a good idea in any case.
School districts provide very little in the way of thorough and thoughtful training.
And it involves the standard setting process itself. So they are not just objects of somebody else's idea of what improvement represents, but are actually involved in it themselves as active participants in it. It will improve working conditions for teachers because they will then know what is expected of them and what's expected of their students. The kids will be better off for it because they'll know what's expected of them. And we can expect that they will do a lot better as both students and then eventually as workers when they get out of school.