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 otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

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

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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

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

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

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.