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Do not underestimate the importance of helping people recognize what they already know. -Michael Quinn Patten. You cannot have students as continuous learners and effective collaborators, without teachers having the same characteristics.
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Do not underestimate the importance of helping people recognize what they already know. -Michael Quinn Patten
You cannot have students as continuous learners and effective collaborators, without teachers having the same characteristics. -Michael Fullen
The demands of modern society are such that America’s public schools must now provide what they have never provided before: a first-rate academic education for nearly all students. -Phil Schlechty
We did not find a single case in the literature where student learning increased but had not been a central goal. -Joyce, Wolf, and Calhoun
The most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement is developing the ability of school personnel to function as professional learning communities. -Richard DuFour/Robert Eaker
Without collaborative skills and relationships it is not possible to learn and to continue to learn as much as you need in order to be an agent for social improvement. -Fullen Michael
If you don’t know where you are going, anything you do will get you there. -Anonymous
Improvement is not achieved by focusing on results, but by focusing on improving the systems that create results. -National Leadership Network
The issue is not that individual teachers and schools do not innovate and change all the time. They do. The problem is with the kinds of changes that occur in the educational system, their fragile quality, and their random and idiosyncratic nature. -The Consortium on Productivity in the Schools
Disaggregation is not a problem-solving strategy. It is a problem-finding strategy. -Anonymous
It is hard to begin to move when you don’t know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there. -Peter Nivio Zarlenga
People without information cannot act. People with information cannot help but act. -Ken Blanchard
Teams get results. -Katzenbach and Smith
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. -Joel A. Barker
If you know why, you can figure out how…. -W. Edwards Deming
Without a competent caring individual in the principal’s position, the task of school reform is very difficult. Reform can be initiated from outside the school or stimulated from within. But in the end, it is the principal who implements and sustains the changes through the inevitable roller coaster of euphoria and setbacks. -Louis Gerstner
A good graph deserves a thousand words. -Anonymous
Today’s problems are yesterday’s solutions. -Peter Senge
What gets measured gets done. -Peters
We need to spend more time, energy, and attention on asking the question: Why are we assessing students-rather than how. -National Leadership Network
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. -George Patton