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Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
Every solution has a problem.
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
The teacher has more power than the Minister.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Trust processes as well as people.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Time is the enemy of freedom.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Every learner has special needs.
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.
High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
