Sustained school reform requires long-term partnerships and written commitments, not one-shot programs.
Evidence
Schools need to prove to us that they’re ready. We’ve also implemented contractual relationships with schools so they know what they’re getting from us and what we expect from them. And from the beginning we make a commitment to develop a long-term plan to help them sustain the changes that will ensue. We’re planting perennials, not annuals. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 4
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘planting perennials, not annuals’ metaphor could anchor a piece on how durable institutional change departs from short-grant program cycles.
- XREF: connects to: Durable community-school change appears abruptly after years of slow accumulation. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 119; Reformers should ignore entrenched resisters and court hesitant but recruitable teachers. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 93; Successful place-based initiatives should begin small and scale gradually through easy grant funding. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 5 (+1 more)
Related
- Revolutionary educators must become partners rather than wait passively for liberation. (similarity 0.86)
- Durable community-school change appears abruptly after years of slow accumulation. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Revolutionary educators must become partners rather than wait passively for liberation.
#expands(0.82) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 215