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.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.