Otherful Quotes

“No matter how well intentioned you are or how badly a person’s game begs for help, people want to be in control of the help they get. Think about that for a second. You hate unrequested help, too. The Founders of the United States referred to unrequested help from King George III as “tyranny.”
― Mike Kleba, Otherful: How To Change The World (and Your School) Through Other People

“There are few people more dangerous (or useless) in a school than a leader whose perfectly organized spreadsheets of “educational data” have made them comfortably numb.”
― Mike Kleba, Otherful: How To Change The World (and Your School) Through Other People

“Things that cannot be described by numbers should not be described by numbers. A lot of the most important, actionable “data” in a classroom cannot be tortured into an integer, benchmark, zone, indicator, or anything else that looks good in a report.”
― Mike Kleba, Otherful: How To Change The World (and Your School) Through Other People