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The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
Time is the enemy of freedom.
Every solution has a problem.
Every learner has special needs.
Trust processes as well as people.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
There is no algorithm for creativity.
Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.
We should test prudently; not profligately.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
Professional trust is a process, not a state.
The teacher has more power than the Minister.
The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
