Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?.

Education is the miracle; I'm just the worker..

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint..

I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with w….

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, an….

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

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and ….

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once ….

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard fu….

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way..

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

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

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it..

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

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want ….

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too..

Falling in love is like owning a dog..