{"id":338,"date":"2009-09-22T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-09-23T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T14:12:20","slug":"book-getting-some-press-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Book getting some press, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like this book is going to be the latest &#8220;it&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934742287\/ref=s9_sims_co_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=left-4&#038;pf_rd_r=06QYWATB0TB45JQACK2K&#038;pf_rd_t=3201&#038;pf_rd_p=490911111&#038;pf_rd_i=typ01\">book<\/a> on urban education.  And while the thesis is profound and important, I just have to hope that the message principals receive is that this task, of forming teams, of working together, or ensuring instructional coherence, has to be <em>in place<\/em> of other activities.  <\/p>\n<p>What I see happening in most Philly schools is a principal hearing about this (or more likely a region person) and adding another meeting and another set of responsibilities to already overburdened teachers.  The &#8220;Christmas tree&#8221; approach &#8212; yeah, we&#8217;ll have that too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like this book is going to be the latest &#8220;it&#8221; book on urban education. And while the thesis is profound and important, I just have to hope that the message principals receive is that this task, of forming teams, of working together, or ensuring instructional coherence, has to be in place of other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book getting some press, but&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-5s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}