We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

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

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

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

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