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

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

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