When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

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"!

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.

Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you.