Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict..

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support..

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

Professional trust is a process, not a state..

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

Walking makes us take problems in our stride..

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven..

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention.

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

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air..

Trust processes as well as people..

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it..

Every learner has special needs..

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

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures..

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change..

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

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East..

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

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching..

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!.