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"Show me someone who settles for average in teaching and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t understand the magnitude of the mission.” Amy Fast
“Behind every cynic is someone whose heart has been broken.” Elena Aguilar
“Effective administrators don’t dance around teacher performance issues.” Pete Hall
“Clarity precedes competence.” Rebecca DuFour
“What are we teaching? What is in the curriculum? Does it really build year after year or is it a scatter diagram of random topics?... The premise of all this is that the achievement gap is really a knowledge gap.” David Steiner (Johns Hopkins University Institute for Education Policy) on a K-12 language arts audit being piloted in Baltimore and Indianapolis, focusing on worthwhile texts, coherence, and cultural relevance, quoted in “New Audits Help Districts Rethink Classroom Readings” by Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week, March 6, 2019 (Vol. 38, #24, p. 6), https://bit.ly/2EQ5d8b
“I don’t think academic rigor and career preparation are at odds.” Shawna Lesseur
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