Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

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

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.