“the best way to get an idea to spread is to just show it working” – In my experience this is never off the beaten track – it is the stuff that role modeling is made of.

Unsolicited suggestion: Be mindful of your successes and the positive things that you are doing, and limit your focus on what is either not done or left to be done.

Anyways, there is a certain sense of accomplishment when you subvert the system that you’re in. Not only that but when you do that there seems to be a greater sense of respect from your colleagues. If you’re paid for the work you’re doing then you’re seen as that person who is just trying to justify their job by trying to put some thing else on the over worked teacher’s plate.

I agree entirely that we can’t become a “True Believer” with out looking like a crazy. If we start talking about a revolution in teaching that needs to happen now older teachers will look at us like we are crazy and then disregard everything that is said after our first sentence. The scary part of education is that we can change things but we won’t see the actual consequences of that change until years later. So when the teachers who are more set in their ways start questioning what we are doing I know I appreciate it as we need people who dissent on both sides so we can find a balance of some sort.