Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.