There is no algorithm for creativity.

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

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

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.