Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

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

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

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Every solution has a problem.

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.