In New England, about fifteen years ago, there was an initiative to get heart surgeons throughout that area to communicate via email, shared video, videoconferencing, workshops, etc. At the end of the study, heart surgery deaths had gone down something like 35% percent.
The heart surgeons didn’t get better because their work was observed by their hospital administrators, but rather because they put their heads together on their crafts and compared notes and talked and shared ideas.
Teachers should work together like buddies to visit each others’ classes and stuff like that, building teams that trust each other, etc. If we get together like the heart surgeons did, there is hope. Teachers should work with teachers.