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Teaching is a passionate profession.

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When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
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It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
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Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
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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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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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Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
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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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On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
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The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
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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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The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
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The teacher has more power than the Minister.
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When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
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In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.
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There is no morality without temptation otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
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Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
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Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
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All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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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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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
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