Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

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"!

Literature is my Utopia

I didn't mean to hurt her.

Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”

To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

We are now running out of time.