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Improvement is about doing something better innovation is about doing something new.

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On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
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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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Time is the enemy of freedom.
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Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
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On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
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We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach a few of my favorite things!
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On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
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Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
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