High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

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

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Time is the enemy of freedom.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.