Schools are always improving but never truly getting better

Honesty without hope breeds despair. Hope without honesty breeds disillusionment.

Schools are always improving but never truly getting better. 

School leaders are charged with building “cultures of continuous improvement” to make teachers' work less insurmountable. We don’t expect miracles; we just expect continuous improvement. 

But this is far from honest. 

As leaders, we know how impossible some of this work is, like graduating the s…