“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.”

“The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.”

“We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”