A Modern Red Schoolhouse trainer poses this question early in the program. During the segment, teachers and administrators show how Modern Red Schoolhouse has helped them answer that question for themselves. Academically, they explain, MRSh brings structure and coherence to teaching and learning through systematic support of teachers in developing a schoolwide plan of instruction with rigorous standards for all students.
Teachers praise the design for fostering creativity while responding to state and local standards.
Those standards in combination with a content-rich curriculum, such as that outlined by the Core Knowledge Foundation, provide guidance, yet allow teachers to build upon their strengths. The program follows teachers as they select a sophisticated instructional management system that allows them to enter, expand, revise and retrieve instructional units. The software allows staff to analyze strengths and weaknesses in their program and to track delivery of instruction as well as student progress in relation to their adopted standards. Viewers will gain insight into the comprehensive impact the design's implementation has on schools as they observe school task forces that address school organization and finance, technology, community and parent involvement, curriculum and assessment. The 30-minute video is available at no cost from Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute.