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

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

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.