What if? A Bakers Dozen
Posted by sjtaffee on November 6, 2009
What if…

- teachers had to pay for textbooks just like their students do, semester after semester, year after year?
- schools spent as much money on professional development to use new technology as they did on the technology itself?
- teachers were asked to pass the exams they had to take when they were in high school?
- school employees were given grades on their performance evaluations of A-F, just like students?
- teachers were asked to spend 10% of their day innovating?
- schools had a profit sharing plan based on reducing their use of paper and toner, saving power, reducing carbon emissions, and conserving water?
- we spent a day, or a week, without using email?
- there weren’t subject matter departments or grade levels?
- each class met out-of-doors at least once a week?
- faculty and staff swapped jobs for a day?
- what if new faculty were given a reduced teaching load their first year?
- what if there were no “front” to a classroom?
- you laid all of the sacred cows to rest.


November 8th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Powerful what if statements.
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November 8th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Thanks, Roy. Feel free to contribute to the list!
steve
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