When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

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

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

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

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.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.