Quotes About Professional Learning

#1. Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Andy Hargreaves

#2. Professional/personal coaching addresses the whole person - with an emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living.

Laura Whitworth

#3. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.

Laura Lipton

#4. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

David Warlick

#5. In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Jon Porter

#6. To stay relevant, you must keep your career in permanent beta. That means committing to a lifetime of learning and professional growth, a lifetime of strategic

Jay Samit

#7. I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

Dale J. Stephens

#8. There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.

Subroto Bagchi

#9. Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#10. It's never either-or, never enjoyment versus advancement, so long as you conceive of advancement in terms of learning rather than climbing to the next rung of the professional ladder. You are getting ahead if you learn, even if you wind up staying on the same rung.

Chris Hadfield

#11. Technology Coaches demonstrate professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in content, pedagogical, and technological areas as well as adult learning and leadership and are continuously deepening their knowledge and expertise.

Jo Williamson

#12. Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Loretta Chase

#13. No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
and it caused me to do the same with my job.

Tom Seaver

#14. Learn good things from professionals but do not change like professional,it doesn't mean on what position they are..

Raghava

#15. I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

Robin Lord Taylor

#16. The best part of learning is sharing what you know.

Vaughn K. Lauer

#17. The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Howard Gardner

#18. My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

Genevieve Padalecki

#19. Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Andy Hargreaves

#20. Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Andy Hargreaves

#21. Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

Douglass B. Reeves

#22. optimal literacy teaching and learning can only be achieved when skillful, knowledgeable, and dedicated teachers are given the freedom and latitude to use their professional judgment to make instructional decisions that enable students to achieve their full literacy potential.

Linda B. Gambrell

#23. I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

Shahin Najafi

#24. Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#25. My darkest desires were for an inaccessible normality.

C.D. Reiss

#26. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Lloyd Waner

#28. I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

Dorothy Hamill