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K12
A short video clip explaining how GoReact’s content library helps districts capture and share best practices for powerful, peer-driven professional learning
By capturing model lessons and master teacher strategies, schools can create a shared space for peer learning, common language, and professional development.
Bill Maurer:
Appreciate you joining me today. I’m Bill Maurer. I’m the K 12 senior executive here at GoReact, and I’m super excited today to talk about, I think the most powerful part of GoReact and that is the ability to create a content library for you to leverage best practice across your district to create common language, common practice. I always get questions from potential customers. Do we have a content library? The answer is, we do, but it is empty. You have the ability to build that content library, sharing the expertise in your schools, in your school district. It’s simple to use. I don’t think it’s used enough, but I think it is the most powerful part of the GoReact platform. When you’re able to leverage that expertise that already exists in your school district is powerful. Your new teachers want to see what good teaching looks like across your district, and it’s funny.
On a side note, I’m going to tell a quick story. For about seven years in a previous position, I was able to work side by side with Professor John Hattie. If you don’t know who Professor John Hattie is, please google him. Look him up. He is an amazing person. He is known for his visible learning research. He’s been compiling this research for, gosh, 25 years now on what works best in education and I was at dinner with John and a couple customers one night, I think we were in Orlando and one of the customers was talking to John and said, gosh, I’d really like to go to Finland to see what those people are doing in education because they’re always at the top. They’re always in the top three in education worldwide. And John’s like, why do you always have to go? Why do you want to fly all the way to Finland to see that?
Don’t you have great teaching in your own district? That really resonated with me and it made me take a step back and really think about how us as educators can leverage the expertise right down the hall from us. We don’t need to go to China or Finland to see great teaching happen.
