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

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

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

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.