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1 " Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference. "
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2 " worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). "
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3 " 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. "
4 " Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence. "
5 " The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development. "
6 " 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. "
7 " We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand. "
8 " When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years. "
9 " I have found that educators yearn to be told something like this: There will be no more initiatives—at least for a time. Instead, we will focus only on what will have an immediate and dramatic impact on learning in your classrooms: ensuring the implementation of a common, content-rich curriculum; good lessons; and plenty of meaningful literacy activities (such as close reading, writing, and discussion) across the curriculum. "
10 " simplicity is a benevolent but jealous taskmaster, "
11 " Clarity," writes Buckingham, "is the antidote to anxiety … if you do nothing else as a leader, be clear" (2005, p. 146). "