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

Every solution has a problem.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

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

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

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