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

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

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

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

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

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

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