The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
Every solution has a problem.
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
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.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Deadwood did not kill itself!
Teaching is a passionate profession.
Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
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.
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
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