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On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
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Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
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Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
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High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
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Trust processes as well as people.
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Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
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One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
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Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
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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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Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
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Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
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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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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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Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
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A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
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High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
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Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
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Teaching is a passionate profession.
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In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.
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