Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Every learner has special needs.

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