This document appears to be an agenda for an adjunct assembly. It lists the names of several presenters and educators, as well as quotes from prominent education thinkers such as John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Paolo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, and Roland S. Barth. The quotes touch on various themes related to effective education practices, the role of teachers, and cultivating teacher leadership. The agenda also includes a question and answer session.
9. “The artistry of teaching finds its source in the ability to start with where the learner is, in using that starting point to build bridges to new knowledge and outlooks heretofore not in the student’s ken. -Seymour B. Sarason
16. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ” ~John W. Gardner
22. “A principal has to be a spiritual leader We have to help people recapture the meaning of the work, and we have to talk about the things that touch their hearts.” –Lee G. Bolman
29. “There is a much more sensible approach to improving education; in fact I believe it is the only approach likely to be effective in the long run. That is to produce a cohort of teachers who believe the are professionals, who act like professionals, and who are treated as professionals.” - Howard Gardner
41. “It is my belief that the thing which we should cultivate in our teachers is more the spirit than the mechanical skill of the scientist.” –Maria Montessori