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Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
Singapore gives 10 percent '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.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
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.
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Professional trust is a process, not a state.
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
There is no algorithm for creativity.
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.