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• Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you…
• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
• Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
• The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't…
• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than…
• Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
• John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not…
• Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
• How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we…
• Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

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