Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

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

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

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."