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

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

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.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

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

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.