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Building a culture of collective responsibility

Interestingly many under achieving schools never run short of ideas and reasons justifying why they are not serving students well and reaching the level of proficiency expected of them.

Instead of investing deeply on instructional core, the tendency is to tinker at the surface.

A lot of energy is wasted on the blame game, where there is a toxic culture of trading accusations and counter accusations rather than cultivating a positive climate encouraging exchange of rigorous pedagogic (instruction) and governance practices.

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Who watches the watchdog?

For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...

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