Heidi Hayes Jacobs Quotes

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

It is time to end social promotion in America’ s schools.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.