A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, but because it has a song to share. Though brief, the poem conveys that creative expression arises from an internal inspiration, not an external purpose or response. A bird's song comes from within itself, not to provide answers for others.

1. A bird doesn’t sing
because it has an answer,
a bird sings because it has
a song.
~ Maya Angelou

2. Cameron Paterson
E: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.au
T: cpaterso
Leading Learning
Coaching & Teaming for Innovation

3. ‘Spray and
pray’

4. Top-down
accountability
and compliance
measures are
ineffective

5. Think of a group that you are (or were) part of that learned really well . . .
What made it function so well?

6. Undergraduate Professional Graduate Advice from
Courses Reading Courses Colleague
What Influences Teacher
Professional Practice?
1=“Notinfluential”4=“Veryinfluential”
1.8
2.3
2.6
3.6
0
1
2
3
4
Dr Douglas Reeves, The Leadership and Learning Center

7. Teachers get better by working in teams on teaching issues

8. How we talk affects the way we work

9. "The Finnish school we visited today sends 2 students to
every faculty meeting." - @Joe_Mazza #MadeMeThink

11. From instrumental learning
to socialised learning
to self-authoring learning

12. People need to be helped over the bridge

13. Networks
rather than
hierarchies

14. 80% of professional knowledge is built
informally

15. Creative knowledge work and radical incrementalism

16. I BLEW IT!
I tried something new and innovative
and it didn’t work as well as I wanted
This coupon entitles me to be free of
criticism for my efforts
I’ll continue to pursue ways to help
my students be successful