ABSTRACT
Outstanding educators know that if a school has great teachers, it is a great school. Teachers are a school’s keystone of greatness. More importantly, all of their audiences take the same view. School improvement is actually a very simple concept. There are really two ways to improve a school significantly: get better teachers, and improve the current teachers. However, what really energized the Anywhere Elementary School gym was the presence of excellent teachers, not the absence of walls dividing their classrooms. As educators, we must understand that programs are not solutions. An effective lecturer can hold a class spellbound, delivering important information in a way that makes sense, laying the groundwork for active learning. The word that captures the problem here is “poor.” But banning lectures from our classrooms won’t improve our schools. The person, not the practice, needs to change.
