A few lessons learned as a teacher: I've learned that if you whisper, children will listen...a scribble can be anything (I mean anything!) a monster, a cat, a mom, a dad--our job is to ask to find out and pay attention--usually the most challenging student needs the most challenges to keep them learning and engaged---most of all we must care, and the rest handles itself. Xo

— Jill Telford

An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

— Jill Telford

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

— Jill Telford

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

— Jill Telford

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

— Jill Telford

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don't care what it is. Create it. 

— Jill Telford

Do the thing that scares you.

— Jill Telford

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

— Jill Telford

Forget the American dream...what's your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing...label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost.

— Jill Telford

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.

— Jill Telford