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.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Trust processes as well as people.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

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

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.