Todd Whitaker Quotes

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

We take the view that truly connected educators connect in a wide variety of ways, never losing sight of the fact that no amount of online connectivity can replace connecting face to face.

His stomach lurches. He has a sense, for the first time in his soldiering career, of what a war crime might look like from the inside. And it's not him who's the criminal, or even Caldwell. It's Justineau. And Mailer. And that drunken bastard Whitaker, and all the rest of them. Caldwell, she's just a butcher. She's Sweeney Todd, with a barber's chair and a straight razor. She didn't spend years twisting kids' brains into pretzels.

we define connected educators simply as ones who are actively and constantly seeking new opportunities and resources to grow as professionals.

If anyone were to ask your students if you love teaching and enjoy your time with them each day, what would they answer?

Great teachers focus on expectations. Other teachers focus on rules. The least effective teachers focus on the consequences of breaking the rules.