Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

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.

Every solution has a problem.