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.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

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

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.