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

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

[Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.

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

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

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.