From Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe:
The idea of a school has no meaning if each teacher, even a hardworking and highly qualified one, is free to teach and assess as he wishes. The whole point of an institution with a mission is that, regardless of our differences, we are all obligated to work to cause some agreed-upon effects, in a coherent and coordinated manner. By being a teacher in a school or college, we agree to agree about some fundamental ends and means. And working collaboratively (and selflessly) to achieve those common goals characterizes true professionalism (p 27).
How true.
What do you think is required of such an institutions’ administrators to obtain this true professionalism?
