Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

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