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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

As I get older, Im more comfortable in my skin.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.