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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

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Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
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We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.
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Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
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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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Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
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Time is the enemy of freedom.
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Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
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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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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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Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
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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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Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
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The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
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The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
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Professional trust is a process, not a state.
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Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
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Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
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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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