SJR Teacher/Learners

First, great teachers tended to set big goals

they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.

Imagine how different things today could be if educators were aware of just how much technology affected their own lives.

Learning communities set goals about student learning and focus exclusively on the day-to-day work of teachers