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

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."

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

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

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.