You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.