Ron Clark addressed in his book End the Molasses Classes the fallacy of teaching to the middle. If an educator does that, the top scholars will be bored and the lower scholars will be lost. He suggests that instead educators should teach to the top scholars and scaffold the others. I really like that. It's similar to the Pareto Principle--20/80 Rule.
I believe this can also apply to our Esperanza educators. If I devote 80% of my time and energy to the top 10% of our educators I can then use them to help scaffold the others. The lowest 10% of the educators probably shouldn't be at Esperanza, and we should replace them.
Doing this for both our Esperanza scholars and educators will raise the bar for everyone...and everyone will achieve more than they would otherwise.
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