Doug Hinkle

“By the time a child is assigned to my classroom, I’ve already begun to lay a foundation for a successful school year.”
― Paul Solarz, Learn Like a PIRATE: Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed

“close and sometimes distant but always somehow attached.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“Good ideas often have unintended negative consequences so it was theorised that dumb ideas might have unintended positive consequences. It was surprisingly effective.”
― Jasper Fforde, Dark Reading Matter

“The over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators’ efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and deep subject-matter knowledge that will allow students to thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy,” the organization states.5”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education