High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

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.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.