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

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.

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

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

Teaching is a passionate profession.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

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