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The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Andy Hargreaves

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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
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Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
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High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
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Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over the job is never done.
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Improvement is about doing something better innovation is about doing something new.
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If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
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