Mike Schmoker Quotes

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Mike Schmoker

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

Mike Schmoker

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

Mike Schmoker

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Mike Schmoker

The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Mike Schmoker

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.

Mike Schmoker

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

Mike Schmoker

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Mike Schmoker

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.

Mike Schmoker

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Mike Schmoker