I'm glad to see that Chalkboard actually uses data, as they often profess.  It's really silly that we are striving to get youth to be self monitors, to build their intrinsic motivation for life-long learning, and yet have education leaders doing the opposite for adult teacher. We used to value modeling.  I would rather see the development of summer work and teacher leaders...it's time to find a step up for teachers as leaders, and to get paid for this work. The journey Educational Leadership had a great issue a few years back with a number of effective models. Time to get a grant for one of those.