Improving Curriculum and Instruction From Creating Orthodoxies to Continual Change

In this chapter, principals and mentors discuss a principal’s role in curriculum and instruction and ways to nurture a culture of growth and continual improvement. Their conversations focus on the following:

• creating a culture of ownership and innovation; • starting and maintaining on-going conversations about curriculum and

instruction;

• grounding curriculum and instruction in core beliefs about human development and student learning;

• change and continual growth; • moving from private practice to collaborative teaching and learning.