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Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

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Leadership, Learning, Mean

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On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

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Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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Time is the enemy of freedom.

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Leadership, Learning, Enemy

Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.95, A&C Black

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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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On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

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Leadership, Learning, Want

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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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Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

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Leadership, Teacher, 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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It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

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Leadership, Learning, Privilege

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Professional trust is a process, not a state.

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Leadership, Learning, States

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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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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

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Leadership, Mother, Educational

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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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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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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

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Leadership, Learning, Data

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Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

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Leadership, Learning, Problem

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On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

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Leadership, Learning, Government

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Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

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Responsibility, East, Students

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Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

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Teacher, Asian, Culture

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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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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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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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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.

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Teacher, Inspiration, Ideas

"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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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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