eHighlights - Focus on Great Teaching: How Highline Strives to Move Teaching from Good to Great

Focus on Great Teaching: How Highline Strives to Move Teaching from Good to Great


One of Highline’s most significant strategies for pushing all students to high levels of learning is to continuously improve the quality of classroom instruction. Research shows that the single most important factor for improving student achievement is to have excellent teachers. Highline teachers are constantly learning and getting better at what they do by participating in a practice modeled on the way physicians train while serving in residency.

Highline’s approach was recently profiled in the "Journal of Staff Development." Read an excerpt…>