Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

When they slam a door on your face, it's life, adding another 110 lb plate to your bar and telling you: "Let's see how strong you are".

If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn’t love.Love is light and makes you light.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!

I love music. I love going out dancing.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.