These days, there are many popular ideas that come at schools. Everyone has an opinion on what they would change and how they would improve education. Sometimes it's hard to hear because if you work within the public school setting, you are under so much scrutiny and accountability that trying anything new sounds like a far off dream. It's hard to process how to become more creative when accountability seems to focus on the uncreative.

In an effort to change the dynamic of learning, old ideas get renamed and new ideas get lost or dismissed. It's important that educators really listen before they dismiss too many ideas or it will just seem that public education is resistant to any kind of change, and we know that is not a new criticism of us.

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