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.

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

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.

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

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

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

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