“They didn’t come in and try to say that we needed to do everything differently”
March 12, 2013 | 0 comments
I, and many others, have been critical of the strategies demanded by federal School Improvement Grants (see The Best Resources For Learning About The Four School Improvement Grant Models). These kinds of sweeping changes are seldom the most constructive ways to move a school community forward.
I was reminded of this last night when the PBS News Hour showed an encore presentationabout changes in a Louisiana school. I don’t know much about the program “Diplomas Now” out of John Hopkins University, but I do like how the principal described their intervention:
DENISE CHARBONNET [Principal]: Johns Hopkins came, and what I really, really liked about them is that they didn’t come in and try to say that we needed to do everything differently. They came to say, what can we do to enhance what you are doing here? How can we make it better?