Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
We should test prudently; not profligately.
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
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