The Knowing-Doing Gap: 3 Practices To End Now
Educators commonly use the phrase, "research-based, best practice," when introducing new programs and initiatives. The phrase demonstrates the school has done due diligence, scholarly review, conferred with other practitioners and gives confidence to parents and community members that the school knows what it is doing. Due to the results of this research, schools are reasonably confident that the new program or initiative will do what we say it will do . . . improve learning.
Unfortunately, educators to often fall victim to ignoring or de-emphasizing the "research-based, best practice" phrase when it no longer fits current practice, especially in the face of opposition from inevitable naysayers.