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• We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

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  Leadership, Learning, Important

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• Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• 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.

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  Country, Teacher, School

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

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  Teacher, School, Government

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

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  Leadership, Learning, Past

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• Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

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  Teacher, School, Design

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

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  Leadership, Learning, Doe

  Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink (2012). “Sustainable Leadership”, p.25, John Wiley & Sons

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• Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

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  Leadership, Learning, Iron

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• On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

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  Leadership, Learning, Arrogance

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• It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

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  Leadership, Learning, Ideas

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• Trust processes as well as people.

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  Leadership, Learning, People

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• Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

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  Leadership, Learning, Culture

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• Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.165, A&C Black

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• When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

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  Leadership, Learning, School

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• Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

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  Leadership, Believe, Learning

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• On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

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  Leadership, Learning, School

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• When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

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  Leadership, Learning, Creativity

  Andy Hargreaves, Dennis L. Shirley (2012). “The Global Fourth Way: The Quest for Educational Excellence”, p.83, Corwin Press

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• Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

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  Leadership, Learning, Cigarette

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• The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

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  Leadership, Learning, Balls

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• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

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  Leadership, Learning, Air

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• Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

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  Leadership, Learning, Doe

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