The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

Trust processes as well as people.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.