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.

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

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.

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.

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