Time is the enemy of freedom..

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well..

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest..

Every learner has special needs..

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor..

Deadwood did not kill itself!.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict..

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it..

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform..

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script..

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated..

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice..

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change..

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership..

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable..

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book..

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy..

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven..

Every solution has a problem..

Trust processes as well as people..