Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

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

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.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

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

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.