Focus+-+Favorite+Quotes

===**List your favorite quotes form __Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning__ by  Mike Schmoker **===

Shelly E. -"Jobs is as proud of the things we have not done as I am of the ones we have done (p. 19)."
 * Inga O.** "Schools need to focus exclusively on these same, simple priorities [common curriculum, sound lessons, authentic literacy] for years - or until virtually every student can be assured of reasonably good curriculum and instruction in every course, every year, regardless of which teacher they are assigned" (p. 23).


 * Chrissy M.** "We need, as Jim Collins tells us, to define our priorities with "piercing clarity" and then say "no, thank you" to anything that would divert us from successfully implementing them." (p. 23)

SCOTT - sorry I put these on the other page.
 * "all teachers applying them consistently and reasonably well (p.10)" //These base standards HAVE TO BE pervasive and solvent in EVERY room.....we don't do that.//
 * "what you learn depends on what teacher you have (p. 13)" //ridiculously, transparently TRUE!//
 * "Clarity is the antidote to anxiety....if you do nothing else as a leader, be clear (p. 17)" //very, very evident daily//
 * // " // We should celebrate gains in any of these areas as we guide and advise teachers at faculty meetings (p. 20)" //we don't celebrate staff successes and/or the people who do things the right way like we should. Just as constructive criticism should guide you to improve your faults, a pat on the back drives people to continue with the efforts.//

=Scott - //"WRITE MORE, GRADE LESS!"//=