Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

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

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

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

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.