Success Stories

#1 THEY TEACH THEIR STUDENTS.

“It’s Being Done.” Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (Chenoweth, 2007)

Educators think deeply about what their students need to learn and how to make sure they learn it --- not ‘for the test’ but ‘to be productive members of society.
Teachers don’t stop teaching just because the state tests have been given.
The verb ‘to teach’ is used properly --- if teachers say that they taught something, that means their students have learned it.

“They know they have an obligation not only to their students but to their communities to demonstrate that they are doing the job entrusted to them – to educate future citizens.”
‘I’m a coach. That’s what coaches do – they scout out other teams and find out what they’re doing and steal any good ideas they find.’
“Most are quite open about sharing the data with the students themselves, explicitly teaching students that poor performance on an assessment simply means that the students and teachers need to work harder and more effectively, not that the students are in some way deficient and incapable of learning.