Journal of Staff Development, April 1st, 2006
Educators gain momentum from a model for continuous improvement
"Good is the enemy of great. We don't have great schools principally because we have good schools."
- James Collins in Good to Great, (2001, p. 1)
On the eve of receiving a fourth Blue Ribbon Award in spring 2002, staff at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., met with a U.S. Department of Education representative for an exit interview. He told the joint faculty, staff, and administrative committee he had discovered our school community had one primary fear for the school's future. Every group he had encountered...
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