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Students in wealthy neighborhoods attend modern, well-equipped schools; poorer children make their way to decaying, ill-equipped school buildings in impoverished communities. p. 180

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They believe that learners benefit when teachers not only respond to a student’s preferred learning style, but also integrate it with other learning styles. Teaching to a single learning style may be comfortable for the student, but it does not enhance brain development as much as involving other ways of learning does. p. 34

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Girls, by contrast, are encouraged more than boys to read for pleasure outside school. Eliot and others contend that it is this practice, rather than any genetic or hormonal difference, that best predicts gender differences in reading achievement.²³ This socialization may also explain why boys tend to struggle in subjects like English, literature, and writing. Boys’ underachievement may be driven by stereotypes: what boys think it means to be a man is often at odds with succeeding in school. Clearly, socialization can be a powerful influence on academic success. p. 36

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As the comments of teachers reveal, one of the persistent challenges facing educators is inadequate pay. To be sure, there are teachers in some states and communities who are paid fairly well, but most teachers are woefully underpaid. p. 4

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As you enter your first classroom as a new teacher, all those empty chairs staring at you can be intimidating. Even more so when they are occupied by animated youngsters. You may feel as though you are alone. But you are not alone. First-year teachers report that they gain a great deal from discussions with fellow teachers, actual teaching experiences, and the help of mentors in the classroom. p. 18

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In a poll of almost a quarter of a million high school students, half said that they did not have a single teacher who inspired them.⁴ (At the college level it was more dismal, with a third admitting to having no professors who excited them about learning.) The high school students who said they had at least one teacher who made them feel excited about the future were more than four times more likely to be involved in and enthusiastic about school than those who did not. So there is so much more than a teacher shortage; there is an inspiring teacher shortage. p. 8

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While ideas of mindsets, multiple intelligence's, and the five minds raise fundamental questions about different ways students learn and use information, EQ, or the emotional intelligence quotient, offers another perspective on learning. EQ “is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking actions.” p. 31

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The willingness of people to understand and appreciate different cultures, races, and ethnicities is often at the heart of the diversity issue in the United States, while the subculture of sexual identity and orientation offers national flash points. The challenge for educators is to ensure that all our students achieve. p. 52

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1. I chose this quote because I feel it spoke to the theme of chapter; to teach to different learning styles. This quote inspired me to plan for future differentiated instruction and to be creative in my teaching when I have a classroom to ensure all the students are learning.
2. This quote resignatied with me as it states that socialization is a great factor in academic success. This will hopefully drive me to treat my students equally, encouraging each and every student to strive for learning no matter their gender.
3. I chose this quote because I strongly believe emotional intelligence plays a huge role in the everyday classroom. I plan to teach and encourage students to be aware, how to regulate, and how to address their ever changing emotions.

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Today, more than five million English language learners (ELLs) are enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, nearly 10 percent of school enrollment (see Figure 3.6). As these non-English-speaking students enter schools, most will need to make sense of a new language, a new culture, and possibly new ways of interacting with teachers and classmates. p. 60

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Schools are one of the portals where diverse Americans meet. It is a place where we can learn from one another. Teachers are the gatekeepers to that learning. If they are open to other cultures and peoples, they and their students will learn and grow. p. 67

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School is a culture. Like most cultures, it is filled with its own unique rituals and traditions, and its own set of norms and mores. In school, even the familiar, such as time, is made new. p. 84

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Teachers are typically involved in more than one thousand verbal exchanges with their students every day. p. 87

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Children across all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds may be plagued by such difficulties, affecting their academic and emotional well-being. p. 98

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Understanding the history of America’s schools offers you perspective—a sense of your place in your new profession. Your classroom is a living tribute to past achievements and sacrifices. p. 114

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Students and teachers work together on determining what should be learned and how best to learn it. p. 160

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The progressive teacher facilitates learning by helping students formulate meaningful questions and devise strategies to answer those questions. p. 160

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We are guilty of ethnocentrism, the tendency to view one’s own culture as superior to others and (perhaps worse) to fail to consider other cultures at all. p. 172

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In a sense, today’s teachers stand on the shoulders of Christopher Lamb and other educators as each generation makes its own contribution to creating fairer, more effective schools. p. 141

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Others argue that racial isolation puts minority children in poorer schools with less experienced teachers, weaker pre-collegiate courses, and lower achievement and graduation rates. p. 132

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Day-to-day classroom life is influenced not only by economic issues but also by the ways in which schools are governed. p. 180

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The emphasis on standards and testing too often casts the teacher in the role of a technician, implementing other people’s goals with the limited resources other people give them—a dysfunctional system that shortchanges teachers and students alike. p. 181

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1. I chose this quote as teaching acceptance and bringing awareness to students is essential in them becoming functioning, socially productive members of society. If students are unable to be around people different from them, teachers should be making them aware and teaching them to be accepting. It should be integrated into all classrooms.
2.  I picked this quote as it is important as an educator to understand the amount of students coming into the classroom that speak English as their second language or not at all. In the future I want to plan for this as all students should be afforded the opportunity to learn.
3. I chose this quote as it spoke to me. The ideals and ways teachers treat other people reflects onto the students. If a teacher is accepting and understanding the students will in turn learn to be as well. This quote shows me the actual impact teachers have on students even when they aren't trying.

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1. This quote spoke to me as I never considered the classroom to have its own culture. As a teacher I hope to create with my students a culture of traditions and rituals that enhance their learning, social awareness, and confidence in themselves.
2. I chose this quote as it is something teachers may not think about; how many times they talk to their students and the impact of their words. With that many exchanges it may be hard for teachers to be aware of their impact of everything said, but they must strive to be.
3. I chose this quote as teachers should be aware of the dynamics outside the classroom that can effect all students. Students cannot learn if they are hungry, tired, have been injured at home, are neglected, etc. Teachers should be aware of this and plan for this to ensure all the students are healthy, safe, and able to learn.

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1. I chose this quote as it is important to understand the history of education and how far it has come. One may better appreciate the work they do and the schools they have the opportunity to teach in, along with the value of education they are giving to ALL students by understanding where education began.
2. I chose this quote as it made me feel as if each teacher is making a contribution to the betterment of the education system. I hope to one day serve my part in that.
3. I chose this quote as it is a topic of importance to me. I hope to one day teach in a school serving lower socioeconomic status students which as I have seen in Buffalo, is majority minority students. I feel as if more teacher candidates should be encouraged to teach in these schools as the students there are being racially isolated and they need better teachers.

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1. I picked this quote as I thought it was important to understand the teacher collaborates with the students to decide how best to learn rather than the teacher being the only one to decide. The students should be involved or greatly considered as they are the ones who will be doing the learning. I hope to collaborate with my students to figure out what works best for them in my future classroom.
2. I picked this quote as it is important to work with students to help them in all aspects of their learning. Early on, students are new to school and may not know how to seek the information they need in order to be successful. It is the teachers duty to model how to ask and formulate questions that are insightful and helpful.
3. I chose this quote as a reminder that even though another person's culture is different does not mean it is worse than my own. We tend to apply this to aspects of a culture that aren't driven in religion. All aspects of culture should be respected and not looked down upon.

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A study that followed 2.5 million students over 20 years found that teachers who helped improve their students’ achievement also had positive effects on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage pregnancy rates, less obesity, greater college matriculation, and higher adult earnings. p. 309

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It would make a teacher’s life easier if all students learned the same way, but they do not. Student needs, learning styles, life experiences, and readiness to learn differ. p. 334

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Most of us fall in the middle, bringing some skills to teaching but also ready to benefit and grow from teacher preparation and practice teaching. p. 308

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Let’s face it, some of the most powerful curricular lessons taught in school are not to be found in the formal curriculum at all. p. 279

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Usually referred to as the Common Core, the standards aim to ensure that all students, regardless of where they live, will graduate from high school with “a consistent, clear understanding” of the key concepts and skills they need. p. 288

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Advocates see these activities as so important that they refer to them not as the extracurriculum but as the cocurriculum, and believe that their value goes far beyond the high school years. p. 281

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We believe that no single “form” of school holds the answer for every student. p. 264

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When our judgments, stereotypes, and assumptions remain unexamined, any resulting low expectations profoundly affect individual children—and undermine schools’ social mobility and national cohesion goals. p. 267

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Not enough students have internal motivation to learn. We need to create self-directed students and citizens. We can’t predict what tomorrow will demand, so to maintain our creativity, innovation and inventiveness, schools need emphasize curiosity over learning a fixed body of information. p.245

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Beyond simply following the law, students need to understand right from wrong. p. 234

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Teachers report that by connecting with students through social networking, they often discover interests or hobbies that help them engage kids in the classroom, positively affecting academic performance. p. 235

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As a teacher, you will be called to follow your ethical compass to protect the physical and emotional well-being of your students and to guide students’ own ethical development. p. 236

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1. I chose this quote because it helped me to truly understand the impact of a teacher. I hope to be an impactful teacher to students who need it the most.
2. I chose this quote because knowing that students all learn differently is an essential piece to becoming an effective teacher. I plan to work this into differentiated lessons in my future classroom.
3. I chose this quote as it is very impactful to the way I go about teaching in the future. This quote emphasizes that even those with a "knack" for teaching still need to hone in on their skill. To me, teaching is something I feel natural doing, but this quote allows for the insecurity of being "a natural" teacher or someone "born to teach" as each one of us is able to better our practice.

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1. I chose this quote as students are so often penalized for not following the rules of the classroom or school but have never learned the difference between right and wrong. This is a fundamental idea that cannot always be assumed to be learned at home. Teachers are responsible for holding students accountable and teaching them the difference.
2. I chose this quote because I feel more teachers should implement the use of social media outlets to encourage and engage their students. I hope to one day implement social media like projects into my lessons as students would find them engaging.
3. I chose this quote because teachers are always being challenged to follow their moral compass. This quote reminds teachers that they should be putting the safety and well-being of a child first to help them make the right decision.

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1.  I chose this quote as it is important to understand the dynamics that go into teaching other than the actual teaching aspect. I believe this will allow me to better be prepared to go into teaching for the benefit of the students rather than for the money.
2. I chose this quote as I felt it would help me to understand what to expect the first year I become a teacher. I should expect to be overwhelmed but look to the other, experienced professionals I will work with for help and reassurance.
3. I chose this quote as it is very powerful and expresses the importance of good, inspiring teachers. This motivates me to attempt to teach my future students the joy of learning and inspire them to be the best they can because it will help them in every aspect of life.

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1. I chose this quote as I feel it is powerful. There is an ideal that traditional education works for everyone and this quote works to break that. As all students are different, their education must be as well. Every student deserves the opportunity to learn in an environment that is the most beneficial to them. I hope to remember this as a teacher, that if a child is not learning or adjusting well to a topic, they may need an alternative option.
2. I chose this quote as I believe expectation is a strong factor in a students success. I plan to hold high expectations for all my students, as teacher expectation is like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
3. I chose this quote as encouraging academic creativity is something I hope to strongly promote in my classroom. I hope to help students be curious, avid lifelong learners.

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1. I chose this quote because I believe students learn the most from the hidden curriculum. Students learn social skills and important factors they will take with them outside of the school setting.
2. I chose this quote because until I read it, I was unsure of the Common Core goal. With so much stigma around it, many have forgotten the original idea which, if successful, is a great thing for all students.
3. I chose this quote because I feel extracurricular activities are vital to the social, emotional, and intellectual well-being of a student. They are able to socialize outside of the strict school setting and learn social, teamwork skills they will use for life.

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1. I chose this quote as it reflects the inequality in educational opportunities poorer students may have. Without resources and a deteriorating unsafe environment students are not able to learn or benefit the same way wealthy students are.
2. This quote signifies the impact schools are run and how students can benefit from them even if the schools are in a poorer neighborhood. The way a school or class is run, no matter the lack of resources, can still encourage a student to learn and grow and allow them to be successful in their education.
3. I chose this quote because I believe the pressure for standardized test scores that teachers feel has hindered the teaching opportunities students need. There is no room in the curriculum to deter from topics that will influence test scores so teachers lack on the amount of hidden curriculum taught.