Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning
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Michael Schmoker argues that schools carry a wide gap between the practices research has shown to work and what actually happens in classrooms. Teachers and principals often know best practice but do not apply it consistently, and a kind of protective shield keeps outsiders from seeing daily instruction. Even inside a building, teachers rarely see one another's lessons.
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Schmoker calls for breaking through that shield: a coherent curriculum, authentic literacy work and teacher learning teams that share and refine their practice. He contends that students become lifelong learners when they read strategically, write with clear guidance and take part in argument and discussion. His message to educators is to focus on what counts, and he promises that schools doing so can reach far higher results.
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