High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.
When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
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.
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
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.
Trust processes as well as people.
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
Every solution has a problem.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
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