When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.