We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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

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

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

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