Do You Believe

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to
the stormy present. The occasion is piled high
with difficulty, and we must rise with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think
anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln
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No person is your friend who demands your
silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice
Walker
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar
and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But
there is no real security in what is no longer
meaningful. There is more security in the
adventurous and exciting, for in movement there
is life, and in change there is power. Alan
Cohen
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight
in the bud was more painful than the risk it took
to blossom. Anais Nin
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
single moment before starting to improve the
world. Anne Frank
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It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
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The important thing is this To be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could
become. Charles DuBois
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must
learn about it in its particular
details.Knowledge is not intelligence. In
searching for the truth be ready for the
unexpected.Change alone is unchanging. The same
road goes both up and down.The beginning of a
circle is also its end. Not I, but the world
says it all is one.And yet everything comes in
season. Heraklietos of Ephesos
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If you don't like change, you're going to like
irrelevance even less. General Eric
Shinseki Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we
change what I can say is they must change if
they are to get better. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Although the connections are not always obvious,
personal change is inseparable from social and
political change. Harriet Lerner
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The truth is that our finest moments are most
likely to occur when we are feeling deeply
uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it
is only in such moments, propelled by our
discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our
ruts and start searching for different ways or
truer answers. M. Scott Peck
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he
thinks he already knows. Epictetus
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It's not so much that we're afraid of change or
so in love with the old ways, but it's that place
in between that we fear . . . . It's like being
between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket
is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on
to. Marilyn Ferguson
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the
assumption that insight will work with people who
are unmotivated to change. Communication does
not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric,
or articulation but on the emotional context in
which the message is being heard.
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People can only hear you when they are moving
toward you, and they are not likely to when your
words are pursuing them. Even the choices words
lose their power when they are used to overpower.
Attitudes are the real figures of speech. Edwin
H. Friedman
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Do You Believe
That Data Meetings Can Make A Difference?
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Are You an Innie or an Outtie?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Meet in Classrooms
Innies Create a Data Room
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Come as You Are
Innies Bring Data Relevant to Meeting Topic
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Round Robin Discussion
Innies Agenda
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Files and Papers
Innies 3-Ring Data Binder
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Social Club
Innies Set Group Expectations
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Social Circles
Innies Develop Common Language/Critical Vocabulary
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties The Partys Over
Innies Minutes
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties See Ya Soon!
Innies Regularly Scheduled Meetings
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Whos Invited Next Time?
Innies EVERYONE Participates
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Whats That About?
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Outties Versus Innies
Outties Oh, Well, This Too Shall Pass
Innies Its Not Your Mothers Teaching Job Anymore
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We can, whenever we choose, successfully teach
all children whose schooling is of interest to
us. We already know more than we need to do
that. Whether or not we do it must finally
depend on how we feel about the fact that we
havent so far. Ron Edmonds, 1982
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch
another life, and that in turn another, until who
knows where the trembling stops or in what far
place my touch will be felt. Frederick Buechner
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Will we spend our energy explaining why it cannot
be done in our setting or will we work together
to do it? DuFour, 2004
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Don't waste life in doubts and fears spend
yourself on the work before you, well assured
that the right performance of this hour's duties
will be the best preparation for the hours and
ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do You Want To
Teach
Every
Child?
Each
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Do You Believe?