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."

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

[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.

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

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

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're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.