Paying teachers for the full days they're working anyway, let's reconfigure the work day to include regular teacher collaboration, job-embedded professional development, the pursuit of action research projects, data analysis, and regular opportunities for extending their professional learning endeavors. What if teaching became a true profession, in every sense of the word, and we paid our teachers to learn, grow, collaborate, reflect, and augment their performance every day, thereby increasing their positive impact on student learning? What if we truly put our money where our research is?
