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Parent-Led Bottoms-Up Educational Policy via #LovingNonviolentSocialChange

Common sense in the application of instructional approach sais that a teacher should seek to know her students, so that he/ she may help facilitate successful educational outcomes in them.  This is a given, and all educators 'get this idea,' and to large degree pivot their instructional approach in and around this precept.  Clinical teachers on the other hand, tend to pivot around this point much better by monitoring their instructional process, and applying metrics that help them actively learn as they teach, experiment, innovate, and most importantly, keep their eye on what actually creates the most successful short and long-term learning outcomes.  By definition, a clinical teacher goes out of their way to connect with the students and is consistently desirous to study and monitor their instructional approach. In fact, they seek to empower themselves in the use and experimentation of best instructional practices and methods as they see such tools and st...