This winter, shortly after landing a job as superintendent of the American Indian Model Schools (AIMS), one of California’s highest performing — and most controversial — charter chains, Maya Woods-Cadiz got into what she calls “my study-mode.”
She pored over how-to books, sat through countless instructional videos, and feverishly jotted down ideas in her journal, trying to figure out what part of contentious former leader Ben Chavis’ rigorous program to preserve and what to jettison. She also readCrazy Like a Fox, the 304-page book Chavis co-authored, which outlines both the academic strategies that helped the network win accolades from around the country and the draconian disciplinary practices that earned it the enmity of everyone from school district leaders to national charter school opponents.
[For more of this story, written by Kyle Spencer, go to http://hechingerreport.org/can...in-its-high-ranking/]
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