Professional learning communities: reigniting passion and purpose: when educators focus on why some students are not learning, rather than on pedagogy, the fundamental purpose of the education profession is revived.

Leadership | May 1, 2006| | Copyright

Every year across America, thousands of new teachers enter the classroom full of passion and purpose, excited about making a difference in the lives of children. But as years wear on, passion and purpose are all too often replaced by complacency and cynicism.

The Capistrano Unified School District in Southern Orange County has taken a hard look at the realities of complacency and cynicism among its teachers and has found a way to rekindle that spark so they may rediscover their original passion for the profession. Top-down, politically driven educational decisions have been ...

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