Changing your curriculum means changing your mind - your basic patterns of interacting, of assessment, your goals, your rewards, communication with parents, and parents' expectations. It requires a deep-seated shift in values. Yes, education can become a bureaucratic and political football going whichever way the wind blows. But this is contrary to what we know about good learning, what we know about meaning is made, and what we know about how cultures of knowledge develop over time. There are no easy answers, but there is a constant need for re-empowering, for a sense of agency and professional control.
Schools are frenetic places.
Teachers need time br reflection, planning, interaction, dialogue. We are the only profession that performs our beautiful creative act in isolation. It is easy to 'escape'. It is the deep privatisation of the teaching act. We've all got to be responsible for elevating the complexity of our outcomes.