David Tyack

You do it across grade levels.

Our regular listeners will know that I love to reference David Tyack and Larry Cuban's book, Tinkering Toward Utopia, and one of their big points of analysis in that book.

is that reforms that make a difference, reforms that transform how we do school, are hybridized, right? That's the tinkering in their title.

And if you take this premise and say that the reforms that actually transform what we're doing in schools are always being hybridized, that that's one of the key elements, the potential for hybridization that enables ideas to make a real difference in education, then an idea that itself is not hybridizable to invent a new word there, is itself the challenge, right? It isn't necessarily that people are going to come out against it, because I think if DI could have been hybridized, and I think we could have a conversation about the ways in which it has actually been hybridized, just small d, small i.