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.

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.

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

Life is the byproduct of our thoughts. To make life better—think better.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let’s dig deep.'

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.

I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.