Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.