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

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'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.

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.

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

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.