Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students..

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties..

Teaching is a passionate profession..

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

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. The….

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have bee….

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

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourag….

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment..

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

Deadwood did not kill itself!.

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..

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time..

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done..

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers..

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure..

Every solution has a problem..

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or ot….

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it..

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them..