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.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

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

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

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

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.