We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.