In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

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.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.