Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

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

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

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

Trust processes as well as people.