Sunday, January 23, 2011

Without teacher buy-in, school reform plans will fail - RocNow.com

Without teacher buy-in, school reform plans will fail - RocNow.com

Without teacher buy-in, school reform plans will fail

Opinion – January 23, 2011 - 5:00am

One need only sit in the audience at last week’s State of Our Schools address to realize that a big challenge facing city school leadership doesn’t involve struggling students.

No, it’s getting the teachers to buy into the course of change set by Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard.

Brizard must make winning over teachers his highest priority, and school board members must insist on it. Last Thursday night, there were boos and murmurs among teachers that prove how Brizard has yet to