Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
Professional trust is a process, not a state.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.