13 Quotes by Mike Schmoker

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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