Pearls Of Wisdom

“Kid’s don’t care how much you know till they know how much you care”

“There are no bad kids, just good kids that bad things happen to”

“For many at-risk students today, it’s a case of the school failing them rather than them failing the school.”

“If a child is a kinesthetic learner, but receives little kinesthetic learning experience, has he failed school, or has the school failed him?”

“Without knowing what an early-risk child’s problems are, how can we solve them?”

“Without knowing how children learn, how can we teach them?”

“Neurological input with motor output fosters true integration of skills for early at-risk learners.”

“An intermodality approach should be used to reach and teach early at-risk learners.”

“Rhythm, rhyme and repetition should form the foundation of early at-risk education.”

“Music, motor and make-believe in the early years can make school fun for everyone.”

“Sing it, and they will learn it.”

“If you do one thing alone, keep each child in his “comfort zone.”

“If we are to make all children winners, we must take away the things that make them losers.”

“Creative interactive play and motor activities should be increased, and television and video games should be decreased, if we are to better prepare children for school.”

“We must make all children a top priority in America.”

“We are so busy raising test scores that we may be forgetting about raising children.”

“The big question as we move into the 21st century is, “Will we build better schools or bigger prisons?”

“Another important question is “Will we continue to try to make kids fit the program or make programs that fit the kids?”