Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

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

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

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

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.