When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

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.

I may tear you apart but I'll put you back together.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.