Leadership Quotes - Page 135

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Trust processes as well as people.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!