Curriculum Innovator T-Shirts

'Your student Clara has tested as Talented and Gifted. But only in metal sculpting. You'll need to start incorporating metal sculpting into your daily lesson plans starting...tomorrow.'

'Home Schooling'

"Students only know the three Rs in context of the tree Ts: texts, tweets and tumblr."

'A restaurateur prepares macaroni and sells it as pasta. I want you to do the same for the educational program at your school.'

"I had a fear of speaking in front of people, which is why I shadow puppet and sing the lessons."

'Your classroom management techniques work in practice but not in theory. That worries me.'

"How can I be a lead learner without the technology needed to lead?"

Mr. Defner's drive-in algebra class was retro cool, controversial and somewhat effective.

'I wrote a software program and sold it for two million dollars.'

'The reason the core curriculum seems so ambiguous is that we dot really have a core curriculum.'

"I hate negative numbers, and I'll stop at nothing to avoid them."

Technologies and distance classes

'This handheld computer is very useful for teaching. It displays my lesson plan, calander, key files, and an extensive menu of put-downs for hecklers and classroom clowns.'

"I believe that's a Montessori school."

"Today in class we're going to create a physics teacher."

"Why are all of your answers so mechanical?"

'They're relics of the many ancient civilization that have dwelled at Blisshaven.'

'They say my tests are too hard. Maybe I should switch from Essay to Connect-the-Dot.'

Welcome to your new English Class.

'You can't blame the kids for being restless when we have math teachers teaching French, and English teachers teaching science.'

'Please pay attention. Pretend I'm a movie on your phone.'

'I will now read the results of my experiments in fruit genetics. . .'

Education Plan

'I was going to teach them the meaning of life ... but it wasn't on the test.'

'You're being evacuated to a better catchment area.'

'Let's put it this way, your Billy is the only kid in class without his own website,,,'

'That's o.k., Dugan - 'why do I even bother?' was a rhetorical question.'

Student to Miss Belcastro, her history teacher: 'We need some newer history.'

Thoughts on Education.

"I asked the parents to get involved more and now they're home-schooling."

"We want him to skip joined-up writing and get straight on to 3D printing."

'In which on-line university will you enroll?'

'A...B...C...D...E...' - Graffiti on classroom wall.

Looking inside the internal maze,

"I wish school was more like TV."