1. My 1500 days at Teach For All
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2. An unexpected meeting in February 2006
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3. Job interview near Riga in April 2009
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4. What is most important gift we could give our students?
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5. What are we really aiming for? Knowledge, skills, character
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6. What is most important for this student in this community?
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7. Going to the top of the hill, looking at the big picture
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8. Sense of possibility – Synergies Global Workshop (NYC 2010)
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9. Creating great schools – 3.2.1. school in Mumbai
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10. Shanghai – system reform for better quality and equity
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11. Shanghai – good teaching across the school system
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12. Let’s not draw the wrong conclusion from Shanghai
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13. What is more important for us: excellence or equity?
• Students in Shanghai are more disadvantaged compared to students
in the US/UK
• The achievement gap between the bottom and top quarters is slightly
bigger in Shanghai compared to the US/UK
• The most disadvantaged students in Shanghai outperformed the
most advantaged students in the US/UK in PISA 2012
Source: page 186 of PISA 2012 volume II
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14. Being Asian does not make you smarter
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15. How can and should we shape the culture in our countries?
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16. Winning the hearts and minds of our community
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17. Capacity building and collaboration among schools
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18. Seeing what long term success looks like (Delhi 2013)
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19. Developing knowledge and skills and mindsets
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20. What sort of impact do we have on student learning?
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21. Professor Robert Coe: how to evaluate impact on learning?
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22. What does great learning look like?
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23. Encuentro Latinoamericano de Sinergias – Agosto de 2012
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24. Rescuing the future head of PAI from an Indian prison
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25. Awesome people
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26. Love your students, love your employees
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27. Leadership is about growing into authentic self-hood
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28. Follow your dreams – now!
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29. All students will fulfill their potential and become positive
contributors to the world
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