As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

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.

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

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.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.