If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.