Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.