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Quote Collections
Quote Collections are one-page pdf downloads of quotes around a literacy or professional development theme. Provocative, funny, thoughtful - each page has a range of quotes to spark discussion, focus inquiry, or foster reflection. These quotes might be used in study groups, or shared between mentors and colleagues, or highlighted as a "Quote of the Month" in newsletters.
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Content Literacy
Mentoring
Commitment to Teaching
Solving Problems
Punctuation
Leadership and Change
On Writing
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Time Quote Collection
We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. Paul Bowles . . . more
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Discussion Quote Collection
As a leader . . . I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson Mandela . . . more
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Reading Comprehension - Yesterday and Today
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The problem is that when we tell kids they have to seek connections as readers, we're teaching them to stop engaging in stories and start looking for distractions. And no one can be engaged and distracted at the same time. Nancie Atwell . . . more
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Evaluation Quotes
There is a comedian on television who jokes about putting together a difficult, five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle: It was all sky! Too much talk about standards, and not enough of the kind of professional development that makes change at the classroom level is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle of the sky. It takes an impossible amount of time and it doesn't add up to much. Shelley Harwayne . . . more
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Writers on Revision (Quote Collection)
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, "Make it shine. It's worth it." Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief! Naomi Shihab Nye . . . more
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Quotes about Commitment to Teaching
To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin. . . . more
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Poets on Notebooks
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Notebooks are like attics, a place for treasures which sometimes turn out to be junk, but take you anyway to another time and place.
Cynthia MacDonald
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Quotes about Content Literacy for Adolescents
Unfortunately, the idea of harder textbooks has captured the attention of educators and policymakers interested in raising academic achievement. But harder books won't foster the growth of content learning. Think about your own attempts to acquire new content knowledge. Imagine you want to learn about building a website. Do you reject the books you might use because they are too easy? Do you say to yourself, "Gosh, only 11 words on this page that I can't pronounce--not hard enough for me!" Richard Allington . . . more
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Solving Problems Quote Collection
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" ("I found it!") but rather "Hmm....that's funny..."
Isaac Asimov
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