Lets put our minds together

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Lets put our minds together

• and see what life we can make for our children

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Find what unites you rather than what separates
you
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Dont call on others to improve your school.
Accept responsibility for doing it yourselves.
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Embrace learning instead of teaching as the
fundamental purpose of your school.
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Remember, give a man a fish and he will eat for a
day
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Teach a man to fish, And you may never see him
again
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Use data to paint a picture of your current
reality.
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Be hungry for information on your school,
its achievements,
how it is perceived.
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Tolerate truth even if its bad news
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Identify the shared hope and dreams of the school
you want to create.
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Act!
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Go!
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Do!
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It takes action not philosophy to advance your
improvement plan.
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Translate your good intentions into specific
steps.
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in a
year
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And underestimate what they can do in a
decade! Anthony Robbins
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Remember, the Romans didnt build a world empire
just by talking
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Okay, they did it by killing all those who
opposed them
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Your school improvement plan isnt worth the
paper its written on,
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Unless it starts you doing something.
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Remember,
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You express what you value by what you do,
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Not by what you say.
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Ask Yourself What do we plan for?
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What do we monitor?
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What do we model?
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What do we celebrate through our stories,
ceremonies, and rituals?
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What do we confront?
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Create a collaborative culture!
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Recognize that a collaborative culture will not
be created by chance or even by invitation
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You must embed collaborative processes into the
routine practices of the school.
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Organize your school into teams.
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People working interdependently to achieve a
common goal.
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Improve your teams effectiveness by
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Identifying team goals,
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Developing team protocols,
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Focusing on the critical questions of learning,
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Not focusing on the behavior problems of a few
students.
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Bringing doughnuts to team meetings.
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Before criticizing a teammate, walk a mile in his
shoes.
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That way if he gets upset hell be a mile away
and barefoot.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the World
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Indeed its the only thing that ever
has! Margaret Mead
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Stay Positive in the Tough Times
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Complaining is like a rocking chair.
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It gives you something to do but doesnt get you
anywhere.
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What you see in students,
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What you see in parents,
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What you see in each other,
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Will depend on what you look for.
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Be tender with one another
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Acknowledge that to error is human .
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But if your eraser wears out before the pencil
you are over doing it.
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Be thankful for every new morning
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Especially the ones in June.
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Understand that example is the most powerful
teacher.
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Live your life so that when students think of
fairness
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Live your life so that when students think of
caring
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Live your life so that when students think of
integrity
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They think of you.
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A teacher changes the World one student at a time
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Unless you are at the middle school then it is 32
students at a time.
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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell
where his influence stops. Henry Adams
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The important thing is not so much that every
child should be taught,
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As that every child should be given the wish to
learn. John Lubbock
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What a teacher doesnt say is a telling part of
what a student hears. Maurice Natanson
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The important thing is not how much you know
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But the quality of what you know. Erasmus
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A good teacher is one who helps you become who
you feel yourself to be. Julius Lester
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Setting an example is not the main means of
influencing another,
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It is the only means. Albert Einstein
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Teaching is selflessness in the service of
others. Berlie J. Fallon
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We all have much to learn let us try to teach
one another as kindly as we can. Berlie J. Fallon
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do
and I understand.
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Correction does much,
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Correction does much, but encouragement does
more. Goethe
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Never give up on a Child!
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There is no way to judge the worth of a teacher,
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Except in the lives of those she has taught.