A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.

Morning is sweet and always like a beautiful women, evening always shines like a man.

Opportunities don't just happen. You create them

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.