Top 12 Mike Schmoker Quotes
#1. We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.
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#2. What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
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#3. The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development.
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#4. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
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#5. In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.
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#6. When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.
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#7. Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
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#8. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).
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#9. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.
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#10. The research we do at the local level - collaboratively - is what makes formal, outside research work. Outside research cannot be installed like a car part - it has to be fitted, adjusted, and refined for the school contexts we workd in.
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#11. Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.
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