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.
Singapore gives 10 percent ‘white space’ time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
Leadership is the cigarette that’s smoked once the change has been consummated.
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it’s time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.