Leaders Can Ensure That All Students Have Access To Quality Teaching

Leaders can ensure that all students have access to quality teaching

Deborah B. was one of the worst teachers I ever witnessed teaching. She began yelling at students from the moment they walked in the door. She threatened them and scowled at them — and they scowled right back, although most were too smart to talk back to an adult. When several of her 4th-grade students disrupted a science lesson she had prepared with a colleague, she told them they would not be allowed to study science for the rest of the year. Her behavior didn’t change even when I sat in the back of her gloomy classroom and took notes. Worse, she had been recommended to me by the school’s principal as one of the better teachers in the school. Deborah B. taught in an

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