Like many of you here, I have trouble letting go of an issue that captures my attention. I'm still thinking about rethinking what we believe is already working. I'd love to come up with a plan for having this rethinking become the center of our action research/cycle of inquiry/whatever you call it. But I'm worried that our new superintendent still loves looking at the "achievement gap." Would you think that raising the level of what we know is working would automatically raise the level of all learners? I don't know if it would "close the achievement gap" but that is a phrase which has always bothered me because of the implication that the top stays static while the bottom moves up. Would we be improving achievement of all through improving the good and making it great? What do you think--can you help me here? Judy P.S. I hope you all notice how I use a great deal of YOUR thinking here! Thanks for all I've learned from you.
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