How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Purple's my favorite color.
James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. . . A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart. '
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.