It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.