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

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

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

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.