1. The Journey: Next Steps...
Dr. Stan Paine, Interim Director
& Principal-in-Residence
Center on Teaching & Learning
5292 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
© 2005 by the Oregon Reading First Center Center on Teaching and Learning

2. Initiative All success comes from persevering.
All glory comes from daring to begin. --William Shakespeare
All success comes from persevering.

3. Practice
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. --Pablo Picasso
What do you need to try doing so that you might better learn how to do it?

4. Continued Improvement
Great teachers are never satisfied with current levels of performance. They are restlessly driven by possibilities and potential achievements. --Donna Harrison
Excellence is not a point you reach.
It is a commitment you make to keep improving.

5. The Power of Example
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. --Secrets of Effective Leadership
What example will you choose to follow?

6. Goals and Expectations
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. --Henry Ward Beecher
“Let that standard be each child’s success.....”

7. Focus
Disciplined focus is what distinguishes those who make things happen from those who watch things happen.--Secrets of Effective Leadership
Be one who makes success happen for all the children in your care.

8. Taking action.....
I am struck by the power of action. It is not enough to dream; we must plan. And it is not enough to plan; we must act Leonardo d Vinci

9. Progress
Our progress as a nation can be no more swift than our progress in education.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let us make haste to help all children succeed.

10. Doing what it takes.....
To achieve a higher level outcome, we must first achieve a higher level of implementation.

11. What’s it all about?…
“Education is not about the preferences of the adults.
It’s about the success of the children.”
What’s needed next to create success for the children entrusted to your guidance?

12. Taking the next step...
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.--Vincent Van Gogh
Let us now take the next small step toward making great things happen for our children.