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

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"!

And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking.

People will always reveal themselves to you. Read the signs and know when to let go.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick!

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.