"What you say can always be contradicted. Your vision is always partial. It’s impossible to know anything for certain, not even what we’ve lived." (Javier Marias)

Norton Juster, celebrated children’s author who wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth," dies at 91 ti.me/3t6t4Ii

Most of us live our lives by accident-- we live as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

Practice 1 of highly agentive teachers: PEDAGOGIC. 'Teachers determine what they will teach and have confidence to advocate for curriculum changes'. #etaqpd

Practice 2 of highly agentive teachers: PROFESSIONAL. 'Teachers control their processes of interpretation, craft their responses to problematic situations, and take goal-directed action that affords their experiencing the results of their decision-making'. #etaqpd

Practice 3 of highly agentive teachers: AUTONOMOUS. 'Teachers know what they need in order to do their work and they believe they have the authority to obtain what they need'. Includes working within systems to resist unreasonable demands. #etaqpd

Practice 4 of highly agentive teachers: POLITICAL. 'Teachers disrupt the status quo, co-construct knowledge with students value all ways of knowing, problematise assumptions, and examine the politics of decisions made'. #etaqpd

Practice 5 of highly agentive teachers: COLLECTIVE. 'Teachers work together to change social, physical and emotional situations and take a stance on practices and policies that have an impact on teachers and students classroom experiences'. #etaqpd

Practice 6 of highly agentive teachers: ETHICAL. 'Teachers consider and act on the ethical dimensions of the many decisions they make and the processes by which they make decisions'. #etaqpd

“In philosophy the winner of the race is the one who can run most slowly. Or: the one who gets there last.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951)

It's better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great. Great leaders see themselves as human.

Did you know that it’s actually possible for you to say, “I don’t know enough about this to have an opinion”

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

Every teacher must be a teacher of social and emotional learning. Learning doesn’t happen separate from who we are socially and emotionally. Humans are wired to learn in social and emotional ways.

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Kindness is a skill and a habit that we can develop. One good deed at a time. kqed.org/mindshift/5391…

Being humble as a leader doesn’t mean you don’t have confidence, or that your ideas don’t matter, or that you aren’t decisive or strong. Being humble is thinking of others, listening, being willing to learn, and also giving others the chance to exercise their leadership.