Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

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

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

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

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

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