If Public School Leaders Care About Student and Teacher Success, Why Aren’t They Asking Them How to Help?
If Public School Leaders Care About Student and Teacher Success, Why Aren’t They Asking Them How to Help? Robert Hultman 2019 Whether at a public school program with fewer than 175 students or at a multinational corporation, there are significant research-backed benefits to collecting and using feedback to inform long term goals and day to day practices. That public schools are underperforming relative to our desires and even expectations and that they often struggle to allocate and use resources effectively are not controversial notions. So why don’t our public schools, with hundred-million-dollar operating budgets, spending an average of $12-13 thousand per student , bother to ask students and teachers what they think? I have been a teacher for a mere six years - short of half the average experience of classroom teachers - but in that brief experience, I have seen feedback collection and resulting action happen (or not happen) at both ends of the spectrum. ...