Jason Margolis

A school is much more than a collection of individual classrooms. Although teachers have an undeniable impact on the students in their classrooms, school culture and structure can effectively support or dramatically limit teachers’ capacity to grow — and, therefore, their students’ capacity to learn. But the influence of school culture […]

Ihad a conversation recently with a friend, a former English teacher now working at the district level providing staff development geared towards creating alignment in the language arts curriculum. Alignment and quantifiable evidence of impact on student learning seem to be the dual holy grails in schools these days. For […]