Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.