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

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

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

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.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.