The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

- Douglas B. Reeves

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of th…

- Douglas B. Reeves

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

- Douglas B. Reeves

For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer …

- Douglas B. Reeves

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

- Douglas B. Reeves

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

- Douglas B. Reeves

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

- Douglas B. Reeves

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

- Douglas B. Reeves

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and th…

- Douglas B. Reeves