As one of the speakers started with: you must communicate clearly that this is HARD work. Because it is hard, it is imperative that school administration and resources are there to support teachers across a few years of professional growth.
In sum, I am more encouraged by the direction the work is taking, but I am still wondering about the balance between resources divided between materials, and professional learning and worried that some places will never get to professional learning.
In Art TEAMS, we focus on student inquiry and the processes that help teachers design better student experiences. In many senses, we provide High-Quality Professional Learning that maps back to teachers' existing curricula. I am now wondering how much better the result would be if the curriculum was more uniformly better.