Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

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

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

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

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.