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

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

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

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.