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

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

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.

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

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

When one has not had a good father one must create one.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.