What Happens When We Trust Teachers?

What Happens When We Trust Teachers?

By: Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard Innovation is a common goal in education. But too often, the very people at the center—teachers—are left out of the process. Professional learning often focuses on ensuring that teachers implement top-down initiatives or adapt rigid models and frameworks that rarely reflect the realities of their classrooms or communities. What if, instead, we invested in teachers’ ideas? What if we trusted educators as …