CNN.com has an excellent report about the Ron Cark Academy in Atlanta. The academy uses non-traditional methods to energize students and to encourage them to learn.
In the report Ron Clark states: “It all involves with the teachers. You can talk about the state government. You can talk about principals, superintendents. It all comes down to finding passionate people who want to teach. We have to give teachers more freedom, trust them more, and allow them to use their own creativity to fire up their students in the way they know they need to be.”
We need a superintendent who is going to be like Ron Clark. We need a superintendent who will encourage teachers to use their passion for teaching. In the report there was no talk of Baldrige principles. The Baldrige model, as implemented by I-SS, does not give teachers the freedom and trust that they need to be creative in their classrooms.
Click on the link below to access the CNN report.
