Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning by Mike Schmoker

 

After attending a roundtable discussion a couple of summers ago, Schmoker made me rethink some of our instructions. He led with the question, "How much time are your students reading?"  

According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms. This gap persists despite the hard, often heroic work done by many teachers and administrators. Schmoker believes that teachers and administrators may know what the best practices are, but they aren't using them or reinforcing them consistently. He asserts that our schools are protected by a buffer—a protective barrier that prevents scrutiny of instruction by outsiders. The buffer exists within the school as well. Teachers often know only what is going on in their classrooms—and they may be completely in the dark about what other teachers in the school are doing. Even principals, says Schmoker, don't have a clear view of the daily practices of teaching and learning in their schools.

Very fast read and worth the time for those leading any type of team.

Found in the personal library of Angie Myrick. A digital copy can be found in OverDrive/Sora.