Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.
As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.