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Work schedules can become so demanding there is little time for creativity. With the day-to-day necessity to move paper and meet goals, opportunity to explore new approaches disappears.

That can be lead to instututional stagnation with employees locked into obsolete and wasteful habits. Fresh and more productive approaches are not explored much less instituted.

It is refreshing to learn that Eudora USD 491 understands this and sets time aside for teacher collaboration. From the elementary to high school levels, teachers are given time to meet with their peers to discuss ways to reach students.

Teaching is a demanding job and with grading, planning, school activities and sponsorships, it’s not one likely to be contained to a 40-hour week. And to that, the demands of No Child Left Behind to squeeze as much instructional time as possible from the school day, and there are precious minutes left for creativity that sparks from teamwork.

That empowerment on the classroom teacher level and the encouragement collective ideas should help the district maintain the enviable standards established in recent years.

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