Friday Story Time: Deconstructing the Cycle of Reformy Awesomeness
Posted on October 25, 2013
Once upon a time, there was this totally awesome charter school in Newark, NJ. It was a charter school so awesome that its leaders and founders and all of their close friends decided they must share their miracle with the world in books on the reasons for their awesomeness, including beingdriven by data and teaching like a champion!
The school’s break-the-mold – beating the odds – disruptively innovative awesomeness was particularly important during this critical time of utter collapse of the American education system which had undoubtedly been caused by corrupt self-interested public school teachers (& their unions) who had been uniformly ill-trained by antiquated colleges and universities that themselves were corrupt and self-interested and generally in the business of selling worthless graduate degrees.
In fact, the undisputed awesomeness of this North Star Academy could, in theory, provide the foundation for a whole new approach to turning around the dreadful state of American education.
And thus came the Cycle of Reformy Awesomeness, which looks something like this:
Built on the foundation of awesomeness established by THE North Star Academy, since teachers