Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.
Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do. . . . implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.
Vision without implementation is counterproductive.
Deep and sustainable change. . . requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.