Steve Denning quotes:

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it's all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.