• A high quality education is the key to a young person’s future. — Anne L. Bryant
• A teacher's attitude determines students’ attitude. — Nneka Howard-Sibilly
• All children can learn and equity in learning to high levels is possible. — Tony Jackson
• All students are at-risk of not reaching their full potential. — William Skilling
• Be a passionately curious role model. — Cara Heitz
• Be better today than you were yesterday. — Melany Reeves Stowe
• Be your students’ biggest fan. — Kimberly Shearer
• Believe in someone. — Andrea Keller
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) 2.0 Education is a critical component of preparing students to be career and college ready. — Paul Galbenski
• Cognition ignition fuels learning. — Mark Edwards
• Collaborative learning is ill-used and over celebrated. — Sally Ann Zoll
• Connected learning creates synergy and energy for students and teachers. — Mark Edwards
• Creativity and curiosity are crucial in learning. — Josh Stumpenhorst
• Dreaming + Doing = Aspirations. — Russell J. Quaglia
• Education should cultivate the agency, voice and efficacy of people. We need to help learners develop the ability to use what they know to solve problems. — Fernando Reimers
• Education should simultaneously cultivate academic excellence with character development and socio-emotional competence. — Fernando Reimers
• Engaging learners to create life-long learning is an ever-evolving process. — Kyle Davie
• Every child can and will learn. — Kathleen Ferguson
• Every child has a right to read proficiently. — Melanie Park
• Every student must understand the power of the word ‘no’. — MaryBeth Britton
• Failure is not an option—it’s a requirement. — Rob Lippincott
• Fingerprints go two ways. — Julie Lima Boyle
• Hands on problem-based and project-based learning are essential to develop decision-making and leadership skills. — Paul Galbenski
• Help make connections. — Brad Markhardt
• Help students more by doing less. — Brent Daly
• I have learned that all students can learn and that their education matters. — Brenda Werner
• In our interaction with students, our faith in their capacity must be unwavering and unequivocally clear. — Elena Garcia-Velasco
• Intelligence is not limited to reading, writing, and mathematics. — Melany Reeves Stowe
• Interactivity is key. — Rob Lippincott
• It is a primary focus of education to prepare students for life and not work. — Gerald Tirozzi
• It’s about the journey to discover your passion for learning and life. — Robert Martellacci
• Kids are here now. — Dennis Harper
• Kids are humans…and therefore should be treated as such. — Josh Stumpenhorst
• Laughter is the key to success. — Patrick Moller
• Learning is best achieved when real world applications are stressed. — JD Hoye
• Learning is crucial to growth, both as a teacher and as a parent. — April Giddens
• Learning lasts a lifetime. — Naila Bolus
• Learning should be the primary measure of success, not time to completion. — Dan Domenech
• Learning starts playful, and should remain so... — Stephen Heppell
• Make learning joyful. — Tong Chen
• Make learning relevant. — Kristin Donley
• Media engages learner interest. — Rob Lippincott
• Meeting learners where they are is the best point of departure. — Claudine K. Brown
• Most people learn best when given an opportunity to apply their knowledge in a real-world setting. — Bob Schwartz
• My greatest education comes from my students. — Leigh VandenAkker
• Our vision should be Participatory Learning. — Keith Krueger
• Passion and commitment are required to be a successful educator. — Karen Morman
• Persevere no matter what. — Angela Wilson
• Poverty is not a learning disability. — Adam Gray
• Reading and writing well matter. — Julie Lima Boyle
• Relationships are essential. — Bethany Bernasconi
• School isn’t just PREPARATION for real life—it IS real life. — Rob Lippincott
• School should be fun! — Mark Edwards
• Struggling students (and their parents) can use brain research to start learning confidently. — Deanna LeBlanc
• Students don’t only learn during school hours - Flipped or Blended Learning is critical. — Kristin Donley
• Students should succeed more than they fail… — Kristin Shelby
• Students will rise to whatever bar we set for them—low or high. — Kathy Cox
• Successful kindergarteners come to school with lots of unstructured, unsupervised playtime under their belts. — Katy Smith
• Successful kindergarteners have been protected from a world that doesn’t often have their best interests at heart. — Katy Smith
• Successful kindergarteners have grown up practicing self-regulation. — Katy Smith
• Successful kindergarteners know the wonder and the power of the written word. — Katy Smith
• Teachers must challenge contemporary measure of student assessment. — Chad Miller
• The best measure of college readiness is successful completion of college courses while still in high school. — Bob Schwartz
• The day you stop learning is the day you die. — Jeanne DelColle
• The skills and motivation to learn continuously, independently and from peers, and to re-learn, have increasing importance given the increases in life expectancy and the likely changes in the occupational structure that will cause individuals to have to pursue varied occupations over their lifetimes. — Fernando Reimers
• The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the skills that are easiest to digitize, automate and outsource. — Andreas Schleicher
• The workplace is a powerful extension of the classroom. — JD Hoye
• There is a need for schools to engage all students in productive learning. — Elliot Washor
• Time does not equate to proficiency. — JD Hoye
• Trust in children’s abilities to imagine. — Kim Wilson
• We can double the rate of learning. — Thomas W. Greaves
• We can’t take all of our students, birds, fish, elephants, and monkeys and ask them all to climb the same tree. — Perea Brown-Blackmon
• We must focus on learning…and that means bridging formal and informal. — Keith Krueger
• We must respect that every member of a learning community is learning right now. — Andrew Slack
• We need to educate students for the future not the past. — Arlene Vidaurri Cain
• We need to get rid of the perception that classrooms with small bodies equal small amounts of learning. — Erin Lenz
• We need to prepare kids for today and tomorrow, not yesterday. — Keith Krueger
• We really don't know how important nurturing is in comparison to nature. — Rich Long
• What matters in learning is whether each and every student matters to the schools they attend with regard to what matters to each student. — Elliot Washor
• When you level the playing field and provide the opportunity for young people to flourish, regardless of the circumstances or environment into which they were born, they will flourish. — Dan Cardinali
• You can't build better learning FOR children... — Stephen Heppell
• You must believe that your students can fly. — Jeanne DelColle
• You must build relationships with your students. — Thomas Pedersen
• “Play Stop the Bus.” Too often we believe we need to get from point A to point B. Often times the fun, fascination and learning comes from stopping at other ideas and places along the way. — Timothy Dove