How Do We Improve Teaching and Learning in Our Schools? Have We Considered . . . Rigor, Relevance and Relationships?

Willard Daggett makes the point that if we are to prepare our learners to successfully perform in an uncertain world of the future, we must consider our practice as educational practitioners. He encourages us to be innovative and to rethink our current practices which all to often effectively prepares our students to live and work  in a world that no longer exists. In Barbara Blackburn's book "Rigor is Not a Four Letter Word" she explicitly describes strategies, techniques and policies we as school leaders can implement to improve the level of instruction and prepare our students to become the critical, reflective thinkers they will need to become as contributing citizens of this or any society.