ABSTRACT
I believe that the image is the great instrument of instruction. What a child gets out of any subject presented to him is simply the images which he himself forms with regard to it.
—Dewey (1897/1959, p. 28)
We sat on small chairs in Margaret’s middle-grade reading lab and talked about the revolutionary school reform being implemented in Chicago. She had been at M. School (a predominantly Hispanic, inner-city school) for most of her 27 years of teaching and was eager to share her thoughts:
I think a lot of us feel that we can see the end of our career and we would like great things to happen at the schools. I think we are more in control now. Some people feel very frightened and others just want to grab the ring and run with it. So, I think it is a wonderful thing to happen. It is making us all young again.
