Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
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.
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!
Trust processes as well as people.
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
We should test prudently; not profligately.
Every solution has a problem.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
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