. . . coherence is one of the signature qualities of our best schools. Coherence means that schools have a shared language for teaching and learning, a common set of right-sized goals that guide their improvement efforts, and processes in place that let different members of the community set the direction for those improvement efforts.

Some of us plant the seeds, some of us water, some of us cultivate, and some of us harvest.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient that which should not be done in the first place.