You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned