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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” – Plato

expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again

1) - How and what are you doing to build strong and enduring relationships with your students and staff? 2) - What are you doing very well? Where are you seeing a lot of success? Do you know why...? 3) - What are you not doing very well? Where are you not seeing a lot of success? Do you know why...? 4) - What are you doing to improve your craft? How are you ensuring that you will be better able to address your students' needs in 2012 than you were in 2011? 5) - In your absence, can your students and staff continue learning and growing? Do they absolutely need you to continue? 6) - Do your students and staff know the expectations? Do they have a part in establishing those expectations? 7) - Do you give your students and staff enough praise for the great things they are doing? Are you filling the buckets of others? 8) - Do you practice what you preach? Do your actions speak louder than your words? 9) - What is the biggest mistake you made (educationally speaking) in 2011? What did you learn from this experience? 10) - If you never saw your students and staff ever again, what do you think they would say about you?