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

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

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

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

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.

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