1. The most powerful and least costly occasion of teacher learning in school is systematic, sustained, collective inquiry into student work. - Judith Warren Little
2. Professional development needs to focus neither on the individual teacher nor on district wide needs, but on the teacher in the context of the school as a whole, and to focus on the school as the unit of work. - Judith Rengi
3. When the classroom culture focuses on rewards, "gold stars", grades, or class ranking, then the pupils look for ways to obtain the best marks rather than improve their learning. - Paul Black and Dylan William
4. Raising standards will happen only when teaching is redefined to include accessing and when structures are created to compel teachers to talk to one another and agree about performance outcomes and how to assess them. - Grant Wiggins
5. Clearly US schools would benefit from decreasing the amount of content they try to cover. And teacher morale and self-efficiency improve when we confidently lay out a more manageable number of essential topics to be taught and assessed in greater depth. - Grant Wiggins
6. The hallmark of a learning organization is not lonely visions floating in space but a relentless willingness to examine "what is" in light of your vision. - Peter Senge
7. The problem with a lot of reformers is that they believe it can be achieved by group sanity. - George Bernard Shaw
8. The most important vehicle for maintaining an organization and creating a notion of change is to encourage conversation. - John Peper
9. If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
10. Leadership means that one is out on the cutting edge somewhere, enjoying all the excitement and the fright that goes with it. - Roland Barth
11. Change can be likened to a planned journey into uncharted waters in a leaky boat with a mutinous crew. - Michael Fullan
12. Interdependency requires lavish communication. - Max Depree
13. It is important not to mistake the edge of the rut for the horizon. - Anonymous
14. The most powerful form of learning, the most sophisticated form of staff development, comes not from listening to the good words of others, but from sharing what we know with others. - Roland Barth
15. Learning comes more from giving than from receiving. By reflecting on what we do, by giving and articulating our craft knowledge, we make meaning, we learn. - Roland Barth
16. Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein
17. Change is the greatest enemy of comprehension. - Pat Wolfe18. Being part of creating the symphony is a lot more powerful than being given a list of songs that were played. - A Corporate Executive
19. Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. - Margaret Wheatly
20. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. - Gandhi
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