It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

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

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

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