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

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Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
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Singapore gives 10% white space time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.
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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
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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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You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
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When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
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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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A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
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Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
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Professional trust is a process, not a state.
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We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
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On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
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Trust processes as well as people.
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Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
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On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
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Teaching is a passionate profession.
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Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
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Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
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Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
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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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