Questions+and+Ideas+Worth+Exploring

“Bringing the regularities of schooling to consciousness around urgent problems of improving instructional practice is a key part of the process of improvement. Then you have to figure out what to do about it.” Richard Elmore [|(Usable Knowledge) -]

'The question is whether other school systems, operating in an environment of increased attention to student performance and quality of instruction, will discover that they need to learn not just different ways of doing things, but very different ways of thinking about the purposes of their work, and the skills and knowledge that go with those purposes.' [|(Richard Elmore Building a New Structure of School Leadership)]

This connects with what Ken Robinson said recently on a ABC interview. He said 'great schools question the routine and habitual practices that are in place, and ask what's going on here?'

This brings me back to something I have bee considering, when 'we' ask schools to try something, do something different - we focus on a change in behaviour .... maybe we need to uncover our thinking and thinking differently about what we are doing and then see what this promotes. This connects nicely I think with the reflection/ action - praxis.....