On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

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

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

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

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.