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My 1500 days at Teach For All

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An unexpected meeting in February 2006

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Job interview near Riga in April 2009

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What is most important gift we could give our students?

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What are we really aiming for? Knowledge, skills, character

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What is most important for this student in this community?

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Going to the top of the hill, looking at the big picture

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Sense of possibility – Synergies Global Workshop (NYC 2010)

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Creating great schools – 3.2.1. school in Mumbai

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Shanghai – system reform for better quality and equity

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Shanghai – good teaching across the school system

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Let’s not draw the wrong conclusion from Shanghai

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What is more important for us: excellence or equity?

• Students in Shanghai are more disadvantaged compared to students in the US/UK

• The achievement gap between the bottom and top quarters is slightly bigger in Shanghai compared to the US/UK

• The most disadvantaged students in Shanghai outperformed the most advantaged students in the US/UK in PISA 2012

Source: page 186 of PISA 2012 volume II

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Being Asian does not make you smarter

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How can and should we shape the culture in our countries?

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Winning the hearts and minds of our community

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Capacity building and collaboration among schools

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Seeing what long term success looks like (Delhi 2013)

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Developing knowledge and skills and mindsets

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What sort of impact do we have on student learning?

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Professor Robert Coe: how to evaluate impact on learning?

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What does great learning look like?

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Encuentro Latinoamericano de Sinergias – Agosto de 2012

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Rescuing the future head of PAI from an Indian prison

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Awesome people

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Love your students, love your employees

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Leadership is about growing into authentic self-hood

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Follow your dreams – now!

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All students will fulfill their potential and become positive contributors to the world

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