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Quotes from Chuck

"The road to mastery is paved with failing."

Quotes from Chuck

"The purpose of education is to empower students, not to keep power away from them."

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"Students cannot self-regulate if they are teacher regulated. Students will not self-regulate unless they see a value in learning."

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"One cannot assume just because a student is distant, disengaged and disinterested in a classroom that he or she is unwilling or incapable of learning."

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"The rigid application of rules does not work. The solution is almost never to “tighten up”."

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"The opposite of fun is boredom. And boredom is the great enemy."

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"Frankly, summative assessment is more about administrative function than about teaching and learning."

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"We should not be surprised or discouraged by failing. It is the natural and normal the process of learning. It is how our brains are designed. Its how we learn."

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"It is the nature of values that they must be internalized to be effective. A teacher may say, “I value excellence and, therefore, will demand excellence from you,” but that is quite different from saying “All the people in this classroom value excellence and, therefore, we will do excellent work.” If you wish for your students to adopt the pursuit of excellence as a personal core value, you must be prepared to teach the value."

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"If a teacher does not find the study of algebra to be source of enjoyment, she should not be in an algebra classroom. If a teacher does not find delight in being in a room full of children, she should not be in any classroom."

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"Everyone is a learner – all the time."

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"If you want your children to maximize their potential, you need to teach them to fail successfully."

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"We should realize that students who don’t work in school are often a product of schools that did not work for them."

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"More students are lost from school because they are bored than because they cannot keep up with the curriculum."

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"The classroom needs to be a pleasant place. We need to recognize and promote the idea that fun and hard are not opposites."

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"Manipulation of adults is a well-developed student survival skill."

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"If the mere posting of rules was sufficient, society would have signage departments rather than police departments."

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"Far more important than answering a question correctly is asking a good question and working out an answer."

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"Teaching is performance art."

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"The problem with school is not that it is too difficult and too fast, but that it is too easy and too slow."

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"Teachers are eager to make good use of formative assessment, but trying to fine tune a lesson on the fly to meet the needs of individual students in a classroom of twenty or thirty is daunting indeed."

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"Success without effort is suspect and generally false."

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"The is no failing, only learning."

Quotes from Chuck

"The classroom needs to be a pleasant place. We need to recognize and promote the idea that fun and hard are not opposites."

Quotes from Chuck

"Students often believe that the demonstration of their personal power is only possible with bad behavior. This is usually the fault of the system."

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"Feedback so intense that it triggers an overwhelming amygdala response will hinder learning, but the greater danger in the classroom is that the feedback will be too benign."

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