Teaching is listening, learning is talking

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.