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The Mitchell 20 Didn’t Wait for Superman – Teachers in a high-poverty Phoenix elementary school change the lives of their students by changing their own practices.

I’ve read a ton of reviews lately of The Mitchell 20 http://www.mitchell20.com/ — a remarkable education documentary film driven by my good friend Kathy Wiebke that details the efforts of a group of 20 teachers in a high-poverty Phoenix elementary school to change the lives of their students by changing their own practice.

I guess I’m struggling to find the right words to explain how powerful the film is.

That’s why I was so jazzed to find a comment from a teacher named Jill Saia on Nancy Flanagan’s review of The Mitchell 20.

Jill wrote:

My faculty and I can’t wait to see The Mitchell 20; for some reason we feel that we are living the same story right now.

Like Mitchell, we are NOT waiting for superman; we are digging in, collborating, and working very long hours to improve our students and ourselves.

In the end, that’s the BEST summary for The Mitchell 20: It is the story of a group of teachers who collectively recognize that waiting for superman is a strategy that is failing our poorest students.

Bill Ferriter

Full Story: http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2011/10/the-mitchell-20-didnt-wait-for-superman.html

(Many thanks to Karen Allen for passing this along.)

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