We should test prudently; not profligately.
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.
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.