Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

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

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.