Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
Professional trust is a process, not a state.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.