On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
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