The Principal Quotes

“It’s important to remember that implementation plans are not for the planners; they are for the implementers. Thus, as I concluded in Motion Leadership and”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into” (2004), by saying that you can’t talk your way into trust. I mean that you can only “behave” your way into it by naming, modeling, and monitoring your trustworthiness.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“When the school is organized to focus on a small number of shared goals, and when professional learning is targeted to those goals and is a collective enterprise, the evidence is overwhelming that teachers can do dramatically better by way of student achievement.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“Note that trustworthiness goes beyond integrity to include real competence as well. You have to be true to your word, but also very good at what you do.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“the principal’s role is to lead the school’s teachers in a process of learning to improve their teaching, while learning alongside them about what works and what doesn’t.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“In our work in whole-system change, my colleagues and I have shown time and again that if you give people skills (invest in capacity building), most of them will become more accountable.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“In essence, in dealing with their staffs, principals should shift from focusing on one-to-one work with each individual teacher to leading collaborative work that improves quality throughout the faculty.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

“CCSS is blanketing most of the United States with a very complex set of demands, and technology is running wild.”
― Michael Fullan, The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact