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Wagner states (p. 156) "Teachers and administrators, working alone all day every day, cannot possibly meet the new demands for improvement that are being thrust upon them with increasing urgency from all sides. Even though current accountability systems are primitive and do not yet measure the skills that matter most, they are nevertheless beginning to have a disruptive influence on old established patterns. Teachers cannot figure out all by themselves how to get **all** students to be proficient, and administrators, working alone, do not know how to create a system where**all** their teachers improve continuously. Indeed, no one could solves these problems, working alone. The challenges are too complex. Some educators know this; they know that, in the words of noted education leader Anthony Alvorado, 'isolation is the enemy of improvement.' "
 * Chapter 4 Reinventing the Education Profession**


 * What can be done in our district to reduce isolation and create a culture of collaboration?**


 * Throw out some questions you all have???? Keep the thread going.

** Wagner (p. 192) quotes Cornell University's Tracy Mitrano, "We truly have to reorient the concept of who a teacher is and what a teacher does: the teacher as facilitator versus information dictator. Teachers also have to model the behavior they're trying to teach. Look at the comments on page 168 from middle and high school teachers: anything we haven't heard??
 * Chapter 5 Motivating Today's Students—and Tomorrow's Workers**

Look to page 170 and the statistics: Are we on the right path with technology?


 * Do our staff model the new learning styles as identified by the book? How to get there?**