Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

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