Carl Cohn Quotes

When you are studying to be a priest, saving souls is supposed to be what you're all about. You can see how that gets translated to saving kids. - Carl Cohn

What people may be surprised about my leadership style is everything doesn't begin and end with me. I believe in empowering a team to do the work, ... If people have a legitimate need, they don't need to come to me to fund it. - Carl Cohn

We have to roll up our sleeves. - Carl Cohn

There is a just a lot of buzz around charters hereit's as if charters are the only option for change, ... Other ways could be explored. - Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills. - Carl Cohn

My first and most important goal is to accelerate gains in student performance. We have to roll up our sleeves. We have to redouble our efforts. - Carl Cohn

I'm 59. If I'm ever going to do this again, do it now. - Carl Cohn

If I bring everybody in, they'll get the message that they're ready to go back out and say, 'This is the hill we're going after,' ... I'm a good listener and I value the things employees and parents would want to say to me. - Carl Cohn

I think this is an issue of healing and making sure everybody feels good about a shared vision for the future. I think that's very important. That's what I intend to do. - Carl Cohn

Art, music -- all those things that we all know contribute to the full development of a young person and can actually accelerate gains in academic areas -- we can't just put those aside. - Carl Cohn

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