Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

#1. The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#2. Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Christian Smith

#3. It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#4. Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#5. I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

Peter Jennings

#6. When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#7. Readiness is a student's entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#8. The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

Adam Driver

#9. A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#10. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#11. In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#12. It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Elisha Cuthbert

#13. Interest refers to student's affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#14. For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Sophie and I would use her Christmas break to make homemade treats from our very own kitchen. I mean, if thousands of meth addicts can do it, why can't we?

Celia Rivenbark

#16. As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#17. Since when did you bring a gun?" Navidson asks, crouching near the door.
"Are you kidding me? This place is scary.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#18. Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#19. Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#20. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#21. You look like a goddess when you come, did you know that?"
"I'm not a goddess."
"Not a goddess. Not an angel. Not a devil. Are you a ghost? Because you can't be real."
"I'm real.

Megan Hart