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

— Mike Schmoker

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Mike Schmoker

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

— Mike Schmoker

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

— Mike Schmoker

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

— Mike Schmoker

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

— Mike Schmoker