Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings..

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears..

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure..

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies..

The teacher has more power than the Minister..

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us..

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!".

There is no algorithm for creativity..

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them..

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement..

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are..

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations..

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust..

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity..

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past..

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career..

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education..

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise..

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines..