High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play..

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain..

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society..

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change….

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it..

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change..

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new..

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect..

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right..

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do..

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious..

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates..

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate..

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with..

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners..

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not..

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced..

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves..

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted..

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection..

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system..