It's All About the People — This article by Doug Lynch and Jennifer M. Worden compares complex, "human-capital-intensive" services/businesses: teaching/education, luxury hotel, business consulting with the goal of taking what works in business and applying it to teachers/education. My take aways...
- When hiring, focus on skills instead of degrees.
- When setting goals, focus on the team and team goals, hold the team or teaching faculty accountable for students learning.
- When evaluating employees/teachers, focus on "teacher achievement and engagement, with the assumption that student achievement will follow when teacher achievement and engagement are high.
Corporate-Higher Education Partnerships Best Practices, Tools and Case Studies for Aligning Values by Roxanne M Gonzales-Walker & Doug Lynch |