¶ … immensely important for school leaders and most education professionals to understand the evidence base and theory behind educational practice. Their cognizance of such theory helps to provide a degree of continuity in the entire educational process -- the culmination of which is the quality of education a child receives. Pedagogues play a fundamental role in that process, as do a host of other factors including the facilities, parental involvement, instructional strategies, and evidence-based practices. When instructors familiarize themselves with the evidence that influences eminent government mandated and funded programs such as the No Child Left Behind Act, they can better understand the reasons for the theories developed from such data. That understanding can guide them in a number of ways of actually implementing that knowledge and deriving actionable insight from research, in addition to being compliant with federal policy (Kretlow and Blatz, 2011, p. 8).
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The world is constantly changing as are the people within it; methods to most effectively reach those people, to not only educate them but also to influence their lives, are changing as well. The most reliable way to stay abreast of those changes and to perhaps anticipate them and even curate them in a positive way is by employing a methodology in which research supports theory, and that theory then is practiced to maximize results. It would be disadvantageous for instructors to only practice such theory without being well acquainted with it or with the research that spawned it. By edifying their own backgrounds with the evidence base that supports programs such as the No Child Left Behind Act, pedagogues are better able to further the aims of that act and to actually improve upon them by…
