School Improvement Advocate Gifts

"This wasn't the kind of budget cuts I had in mind."

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

'Let's go to our education reporter for more underreporting of school success stories.'

I'm over-educated and under-employed. That's why there's no MIDDLE class anymore.

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

Staff Yearbook

"Coronavirus, masks requirements, falling test scores, student violence - we need to be able to pray in school!"

“Today we are going to be learning percentages.”

"Because when you're drafted by the pros, you'll have to be able to sign your contract. That's why you have to attend first grade."

"An educational toy is my immediate goal, but my long range plan is to get him on Jeapordy!"

Chicken soup for the adjunct professors soul

'Personally - I'm against a four-day school week - I'm for a three-day school week. . .'

'The school computers are six months old. How can I be expected to be competitive in the job market if I'm trained on obsolete equipment?'

'I got and 'E' in spelling.' - 'That is an 'F'.'

"Could you please downgrade this to a C? High expectations bring out the worst in my parents."

'If school is so important, why isn't it on television?'

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

'Child labor laws don't apply to homework, Jimmy.'

Nurse's introduction training - "We don't get the quality of student we used to"

'So feared her prince may turn back into a frog so she went to college and earned a degree in finance, just in case.'

'It may not be a great report card but it beat the street expectations.'

Educators push back against politically motivated school opening proposals."

Gold versus Knowledge

"I'd say hi to my favorite teacher, but I think she's enjoying some quiet remote-from-us learning."

'Man! I wish I'd finished college.'

Good writing is good thinking

'Kids, you can all do it! Latest scientific research shows that you're smarter than previously believed.'

'The legislation HR2109 would increase state aid to education. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for you.'

Uranium, heavy water? Where on the web did you say you got the plans for this birdhouse?

'Education is very important. Let's go buy three liters of books so we can learn!'

Global Education

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

'There's more than one kind of deficit.'