Book Description "We must improve schools from within, utilizing our expertise as teaching professionals and placing ourselves at the center of the education reform movement. As Adrienne Mack-Kirschner informs us all in this important book, ?These stories represent what is happening in tens of thousands of classrooms. They hold within them the power of what could be if all teachers and schools provided opportunities for all children to experience powerful teaching and learning.?" --From the Foreword by Cathy R. Owens, NBCT Director of Teacher Leadership Initiatives The National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsInspiring stories from everyday classrooms to move your head, heart, and soul . . . In an increasingly rigid educational world dominated by standards, lock-step scope and sequence, and strict, scripted lessons, we can sometimes lose sight of why we chose to become teachers in the first place. This important...
