Schmoker Quotes

#1. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Ted Allen

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

Mike Schmoker

#3. should be a class in college, Vibrators 101.

Lauren Calhoun

#4. But that's the problem with causing offense, isn't it? You don't always know when you do.

Gabrielle Donnelly

#5. Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Michael J. Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

#8. I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

Karl Pilkington

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

Mike Schmoker

#10. School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

Michael J. Schmoker

#11. Startling as this may sound, the truth is that many children read for a remarkably small percentage of the school day.

Michael J. Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

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

Mike Schmoker

#16. In a healthy system, there is no blame.

Michael J. Schmoker

#17. I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

Suzanne Finnamore

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. This misery of a gig called life is just a dream from which we all eventually awaken, he said. Nobody gets left behind. Even the most horrible dreams end.

Jeremy Massey

#21. 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

#22. Hello?" "Hazel said you're not coming in. You okay?" "Uh . . ." "Are you sick?" "No." "Then why aren't you coming to work?" "I have a bad case of awkward as fuck." "Because I kissed you?" he asked, incensed.

Jamie McGuire

#23. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Mike Schmoker