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On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Andy Hargreaves

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Every learner has special needs.
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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
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We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
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Deadwood did not kill itself!
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Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
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Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
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Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
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The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
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Time is the enemy of freedom.
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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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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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