10 quotes found
“What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.”
“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.”
“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).”
“The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.”
“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”
“We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.”
“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.”
“Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.”
“In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.”
“These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading ...”
