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

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

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.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.