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.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

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.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

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

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.