First, we need to hold educators accountable, but they need to be evaluated fairly and they need to be given opportunities to improve. They must also demonstrate growth through student growth in academics and testing. For this to happen, principals must be trained to give effective feedback and know how to have difficult conversations with their teachers. We must not only hold teachers accountable, but also those who give assessments. Assessments should be used not only to improve teaching, but also to help schools make personnel changes and place teachers. Often teachers are not comfortable teaching something they have never taught before, but we need to move past that and use our skills to help our students. Teachers must be able to step out of their comfort zone. If teachers are not performing well, they should be fired or replaced. Right now we have many flaws in our system that keep many teachers employed who are not always the best fit for our