Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention