In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

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

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

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

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.