Twitter Book Club: Seymour B. Sarason (1996) Revisiting "The Culture of The School and the Problem of Change" - Chapter 9

Chapter 9: The Principal and the Use of "The System"

"rarely does one meet someone who believed [the system] is working well and that one's job could not be done better... http://tl.gd/b1l197less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Too frequently, the individual's conception of the system serves as a basis for inaction and rigidity, or as a con... http://tl.gd/b1l3msless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"To neglect emotional factors in the classroom with an unmanageable child is to invite upheaval." Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Teachers have an antipathy to imposing on each other" Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Most of the inner-city children who require psychotherapy will never receive it; thus the teacher's may be the onl... http://tl.gd/b1li23less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"to test tolerance requires that one assume that 'the system' can be or should be or will be malleable." Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"the principal's actual knowledge of the characteristics of the system is frequently incomplete and faulty to the d... http://tl.gd/b1lqp0less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"there are principals who act as if they are primarily in control of their destiny, and there are Those who act as ... http://tl.gd/b29m7bless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Can pupils learn and change if teachers are not continuing to learn and change?" Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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RT @anderscj: "Can pupils learn and change if teachers are not continuing to learn and change?" Sarasonless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyMichael Plyler
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RT @anderscj: "Can pupils learn and change if teachers are not continuing to learn and change?" Sarason #fhuedu610less than a minute ago via Echofon Favorite Retweet ReplyMonte Tatom
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"life for everyone in a school is determined by ideas and values, and if these are not under constant discussion an... http://tl.gd/b2u2nqless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"if the principal is not constantly confronting one's self and others, and if others cannot confront the principal ... http://tl.gd/b2u42lless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"far from being a sovereign system, the schools have always been creatures of outside forces." Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"in times of shrinking school populations and the closing of schools, survival rather than change will tend to get top priority." Sarasonless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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