• Respects the dignity of young people.
• Listens carefully.
• Sees diversity as a source of strength.
• Wants students to think about Big Ideas.
• Has a deep interest in excellence and equity.
  
  

• Infrastructure not readily suited to this type of teaching
• Texts, schedules, attitudes oriented around subject teaching

Colleagues

• Entrenched subject specialists
• Subject status issues (math better than PE, PE better than art)
• Not how they were taught

The Educational Elite

• Accepted, traditional knowledge is the only knowledge worth sharing
• Bureaucracy uses disciplines as organizational format
• Test and textbook manufactures are highly resistant to change

Not My Child

• Parents fear results of new process may not be successful