It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

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

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

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

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

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.