Learning

I have been musing about a post on learning--that the focus of education needs to be on learning. It keeps getting longer but the basic pieces are:

• Learning must be the focus of everything that everyone does.
• Hiring must be driven by a need to get the right people on the bus.
• Leaders must ensure that the focus of the school is learning
• Teachers must ensure that they are focusing on the most important learnings every day.
• Collaboration--teaching should not be an individual activity. Teaching should be an activity that is done collectively similar to how medical professionals work as a team to make you better.
• Special education is one tool to help students but there must be other tools that are equally robust to help students.
  

I've been trying to make it post length but it keeps getting longer. I'm thinking that the six things listed above might be a sort of synthesis for what schools and districts need to do to improve.