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We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

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The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
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Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
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Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
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You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
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Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.
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As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
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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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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
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Every solution has a problem.
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Too often, shared visions really mean, I have a vision you share it!
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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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Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
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