I’m so exhausted by decision-makers in education refusing to invest in long-term solutions. If you don’t have the resources to do it right, you don’t have the resources to do it at all.
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And installing new initiatives, only to abandon it within a couple years for a newer toy, or because a new district Admin is collecting data for a dissertation.
The only decision makers that matter are the students and their parents or guardians up to a certain age. Education academics have a hard time separating their careers and institutions from what students really want or need.
How many trainings have I been to over the years where the trainer says something to the effect, “well, this is usually a 5 day training (with coaching sessions), BUT your school/district only paid for this morning…or today…”
I now understand why it's so hard to change things. From the very start of having an idea, you already have to beg a neoliberal bureaucracy for money to obtain evidence.
Good stuff is happening, but it takes a frustratingly long time rn 😮💨
There is a conflict between the goal of delivering high quality education, where a change that needs to take place in 2nd grade will take 10 years to pay off in graduation rates, and the goal of school board members and others to be reelected, in terms far shorter than those 10 years.
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How many trainings have I been to over the years where the trainer says something to the effect, “well, this is usually a 5 day training (with coaching sessions), BUT your school/district only paid for this morning…or today…”
What are we even DOING?
I now understand why it's so hard to change things. From the very start of having an idea, you already have to beg a neoliberal bureaucracy for money to obtain evidence.
Good stuff is happening, but it takes a frustratingly long time rn 😮💨