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“If you’re trying to be more productive, don’t analyze how you spend your time. Pay attention to what consumes your attention.” Adam Grant
“The more I practice, the luckier I get.” Gary Player, quoted in “Tiger Woods and the Game of Life” by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, April 17, 2019, https://nyti.ms/2PmZKdK
“Adults can never know young people’s questions, curiosities, fears, or anxieties about race in America without asking them.” Margaret Hagerman
“Just get honest with yourself and acknowledge that you’re upset. It’s the stuff we’re not aware of in ourselves that has the power to control us. Then consider what you are upset about.”
Bishop Michael Curry in “Life’s Work,” an interview with Ania Wieckowski in Harvard Business Review, May-June 2019 (Vol. 97, #3, p. 172), available for purchase at https://bit.ly/2Iz4pbZ
“Benchmark assessments fall into the enormous category of educational solutions that are simple, compelling, and wrong. Yes, teachers need to know what students are learning and what is needed to improve it, but they have available many more tools that are far more sensitive, useful, timely, and tied to actions teachers can take.” Robert Slavin
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