Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

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.

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.