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Trust processes as well as people.

Andy Hargreaves

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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.
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You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
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Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
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Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
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Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
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On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
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Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
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You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
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Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
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Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
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Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
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If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
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Deadwood did not kill itself!
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On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
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On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
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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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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
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When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
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Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
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