Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

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.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.