In my essay I also suggested that if you are stating there should be 'more' expert teachers, then this might be a reflection of a thought process that is utopian.

"Yes, but the key is then how to use them – many principals think it is their job to run professional learning, the HALTS [Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers] struggle to have a purpose in the school – indeed we are using them more outside their school than in. We noted that teachers are huge users of social media, so use HALTS a lot in this form – we get 1/3rd million hits a month to the web site. The reason I feel this way is that I believe state education has never intended to promote excellence, but rather it is constrained by government ideology, which attempts to limit the potential of most learners. Yes, agree – it is hard but not impossible to get expertise on the table, but to be fair the greatest resistors are the educators not the politicians” (John Hattie, personal communication, March 13, 2018).