Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Time is the enemy of freedom.

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

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.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.