Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

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

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.