Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

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"!

The writer’s life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.

Abundant grace, amazing life.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Color transmits and translates emotion.