ABSTRACT
School reform doesn’t happen in Washington, Ottawa, London, or, for that matter, any other capital. It doesn’t occur at the school board level or even at the school, for the most part. Evaluating What Good Teachers Do: Eight Research-Based Standards for Assessing Teacher Excellence is built on the foundation that the classroom—not the school—is the place on which we must focus for improved student performance. When one teacher improves her or his capacity to help students learn, then, and only then, does school improvement occur. And the reason is quite simple: teacher success = student success.
