Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

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

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

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

The fragile ego will not understand that the depths of another's words may not always be by them but for them

The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Be transparent about company values and adhere to them as your company grows.