ALT "If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." —Often attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince

ALT “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” — bell hooks

ALT "I often ask, ‘What’s the hardest or easiest part of what we just learned?’ This helps me to see where students might be struggling, even the ones who ‘got it.’" – Shelly Cloke, Teacher

ALT The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day. —Todd Whitaker, Educator