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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.