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

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

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

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

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