Mike Schmoker Quotes

#1. Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Mike Schmoker

#2. You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Lisa Scottoline

#3. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Mike Schmoker

#4. You are going to experience hurt, fear, pain, and possibly even heartache, but that's life. You stand back up, and you begin again. It's not easy. It sucks. And it might damage you, but that's how you build a thick skin. You take what life hands you , and you do your damn best to survive.

Brooke Cumberland

#5. Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

Tom Baker

#6. No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

Srividya Srinivasan

#7. 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.

Mike Schmoker

#8. Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

Robert Manning

#9. 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.

Mike Schmoker

#10. 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.

Mike Schmoker

#11. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Mike Schmoker

#12. The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Brian Tracy

#13. Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

T. Colin Campbell

#14. When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.

Mike Schmoker

#15. In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Mike Schmoker

#16. But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing.

Edward St. Aubyn

#17. He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

Stephen King

#18. She keeps her eyes closed but smiles, giving herself away. "Shush, I'm having a dream." "It's not a dream. It's all real." "How would you know? You're not even in it." She feels playful, heavy with happiness. With rightness. "I'm in all of them," he says. "It's where I live now.

Laini Taylor

#19. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

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#20. wholly satisfactory,

Elizabeth Peters

#21. The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Mike Schmoker

#22. What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

Mike Schmoker

#23. We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Mike Schmoker

#24. Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

William Shakespeare