Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

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

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

We should test prudently; not profligately.

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