A Quote by Andy Hargreaves
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
Quote Topics
Quote Author
Related Quotes
To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be participating in this 'project'. Not only professional educators and teachers , but especially artists, creative people, thinkers. There should be many more initiatives, particularly more from the independent press! What happened to progressive independent publications in Indonesia? Nothing - they never took off! It is a shame.
There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.
I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives, like the international solar alliance, many green initiatives in schools, lots of river reservations projects.
There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.
I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.
Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.
The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives in terms of making health care more affordable and covering the remaining millions of Americans who do not have insurance coverage.
When you start to look at completing the development of a modern professional army, when you talk about maturing a democracy, when you talk about development and the economic conditions that have to be addressed, a decade is not too short a period of time to talk about.
The Italian Language Foundation will continue to support the growth of AP Italian through its grants to AP students, and its professional development opportunities for teachers of Italian.
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Related Authors
Denis Donoghue Quotes
Irish
Academic
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes
American
Academic
Frank Bidart Quotes
American
Academic
Jacob Neusner Quotes
American
Academic
Jeffrey Rosen Quotes
American
Academic
Marc Lamont Hill Quotes
American
Academic
Michael McFaul Quotes
American
Academic
Mick Dodson Quotes
Australian
Academic
Richard Pipes Quotes
American
Academic
Simon Blackburn Quotes
English
Academic
Stefan Collini Quotes
English
Academic
Stuart L. Hart Quotes
American
Academic
Teresa Ghilarducci Quotes
American
Academic
Vali Nasr Quotes
American
Academic