Teach 'Em Until They Learn
(From the airport in Memphis) The Teacher in a Strange Land has been crisscrossing the country for the past couple of weeks, bouncing from the inspiring, once-in-a-generation experience of the Save Our Schools March to a focused, productive teacher leadership workshop in northern Wisconsin (which included an all-American evening hanging around at the Packers' practice field and eating cheese curds). I spent the last three days in the deep South, working at a turnaround school.
Quel contraste, as they say in Louisiana.
As often happens, although I was nominally the "presenter," I probably got more out of the work than the teachers who were supposed to be on the receiving end of what I had to offer. Simply being in the room with the
