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Trust processes as well as people.
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Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
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Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.
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Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.
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Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
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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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High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
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Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
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It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
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Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
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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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Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
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When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
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High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
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It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
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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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Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
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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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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
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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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