Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

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