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.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

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