We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

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.

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

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

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

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