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."

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 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.

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit