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.

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

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

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

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

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