Teaching is a passionate profession.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

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

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.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

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