Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

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

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.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.