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“96% believe they are good listeners and that’s baloney.” Dan Rockwell
“The message you intended to send is not necessarily the message received.” David Perlmutter
“Head jailer.” The title conferred on a disciplinarian principal by a sardonic colleague
“In many classrooms and computer labs, students are expected to ‘sit still’ and ‘pay attention’ for an entire class period or for several hours in a row. For some with disabilities or learning differences, this can be an impossible task.” Shannon Gilfeather
“There’s the pressure to do test prep, whereas the best test prep in the world is reading. You can spend all kinds of time with list-based vocabulary instruction, but how did you learn all the words you know? Not with flashcards, but simply through meeting those words again and again in different contexts as you read.” Carol Jago in “Q&A” with Michelle Healy in American School Board Journal, February 2019 (Vol. 206, #1, p. 50), https://bit.ly/2RFiDw4
“Of course.” The best response to a request from a superior
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