Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Teachers take charge to save ailing public schools


This article talks about teacher-led schools.  Apparently, everyone from the janitor to the principal have the same amount of say.  The way that decisions are made are by majority vote.  I am just curious as to how the referral process works in schools like this as well as special education.  Do a majority of teachers need to agree that a student has a disability?  Or is it like the regular referral process?  I don't know, but it would be interesting to see how teacher-led schools affect students' with special needs and in particularly why it affects.  But, I don't have the money or anything like that to do it, nor how to even do a study like that.

But, it presents a very fascinating idea.  It is almost like a democratic school, in that all teachers have the same say in things.  They have a say in what they would like to teach, which is very helpful, I would think.  Very helpful in keeping the teachers teaching there at the school.

I guess that this article doesn't really affect how I will teach, but it may affect where I end up teaching.  It would also be good to just know about it because it sounds like a very fascinating movement within the education movement in the United States.

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