1. Minding Our Future To cultivate excellence in public schools so all students succeed in learning and life.

2. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

3. “One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” Eudora Welty

4. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” -John Butler Yeats

5. “In their seminal text Verbal Protocols of Reading, Pressley and Afflerbach trace the use of think alouds from the time of Aristotle and Plato as a way of revealing and studying the processes of thinking.” -Jeff Wilhelm, Strategic Reading

6. “A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye” -Albert Einstein