Do not underestimate the importance of Do not underestimate the importance of helping people recognize what they helping people recognize what they already know.already know.

-Michael Quinn Patten-Michael Quinn Patten

You cannot have students as continuous You cannot have students as continuous learners and effective collaborators, learners and effective collaborators, without teachers having the same without teachers having the same characteristics.characteristics. -Michael -Michael FullenFullen

The demands of modern society are such that The demands of modern society are such that America’s public schools must now provide America’s public schools must now provide what they have never provided before: a first-what they have never provided before: a first-rate academic education for nearly all students.rate academic education for nearly all students.

-Phil Schlechty-Phil Schlechty

We did not find a single case in the We did not find a single case in the literature where student learning literature where student learning increased but had not been a central increased but had not been a central goal.goal. -Joyce, Wolf, and Calhoun-Joyce, Wolf, and Calhoun

The most promising strategy for sustained, The most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement is developing substantive school improvement is developing the ability of school personnel to function as the ability of school personnel to function as professional learning communities.professional learning communities.

-Richard DuFour/Robert -Richard DuFour/Robert EakerEaker

Without collaborative skills and relationships it Without collaborative skills and relationships it is not possible to learn and to continue to learn is not possible to learn and to continue to learn as much as you need in order to be an agent as much as you need in order to be an agent for social improvement.for social improvement.

-Fullen -Fullen Michael Michael

If you don’t know where you are going, If you don’t know where you are going, anything you do will get you there.anything you do will get you there.

-Anonymous -Anonymous

Improvement is not achieved by focusing Improvement is not achieved by focusing on results, but by focusing on improving on results, but by focusing on improving the systems that create results.the systems that create results.

-National Leadership Network-National Leadership Network

The issue is not that individual teachers and The issue is not that individual teachers and schools do not innovate and change all the schools do not innovate and change all the time. They do. The problem is with the kinds time. They do. The problem is with the kinds of changes that occur in the educational of changes that occur in the educational system, their fragile quality, and their random system, their fragile quality, and their random and idiosyncratic nature.and idiosyncratic nature.

-The Consortium on Productivity in the Schools-The Consortium on Productivity in the Schools

Disaggregation is not a problem-solving Disaggregation is not a problem-solving strategy. It is a problem-finding strategy.strategy. It is a problem-finding strategy.

-Anonymous-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