What happens when teachers run the school: In a time of slumping educator morale, a model that gives teachers greater control over their professional lives — and of entire schools — is winning attention

https://hechingerreport.org/what-happens-when-teachers-run-the-school/

The pandemic and travails of remote learning walloped the education profession, worsening teacher morale and contributing to more people exiting the field. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “parental rights.”

Supporters of the teacher-powered model see it as an important antidote to these trends, as well as to the micromanaging by school districts and administrators that has contributed to more young people shunning the profession. It turns a top-down approach to education on its head, asserting that teachers are most familiar with the needs of students and know best how to help them learn, and that decisions made with little input from teachers can hurt kids and make schools less vibrant, creative places.

I want to be mindful of "silver bullet" thinking, but this does sound like a very promising idea. From the research cited in the middle of the article, there seem to be enough existing pilots/examples that teachers and policy makers can really evaluate this idea without needing to make a leap of faith.

Submitted April 25, 2023 at 05:20AM by LawAndMortar https://ift.tt/lTKbFk3