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We Might Be Giants

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

It's becoming increasingly clear that the demands of the 21st Century are creating a need for schools to become learning organizations that focus on developing human capital and creativity in their teachers by preparing them to make dramatic changes in the educational landscape.

In his book "The Fifth Discipline," Peter Senge describes a learning organization as a place "where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together."

Unfortunately, most...