If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task..

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help..

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning..

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But….

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth ….

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for ga….

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously..

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test..

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions..

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow..

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends..

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns..

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of informa….

Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted wit….

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of ….

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workpla….

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. ….

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies….

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effo….

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the….

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them..