Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

I dare you to listen to this

Scott McLeod

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In fact, I triple dog dare you…

The resilience of teacher culture (6:28)

[Dr. Elmore‘s full speech and other excerpts are available on my Podcasts page]

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