EYE OPENERS
“Students who are loved at home, come to school to learn, and students who aren’t come to school to be loved.”
Nicholas A. Ferroni
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
-Maya Angelou
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see."
-Jean Piaget
“A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
B. F. Skinner
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” -Maya Angelou
“A mind cannot be independent of culture."
-Lev Vygotsky
" It's the head and heart combined. I have seen things throughout my career and my life that you can think big. And you can get things done."
Samuel J. Meisels, EdD
"We need to help people understand that babies are more than very, very short adults."
Samuel J. Meisels, EdD
"Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions-not just constant happiness."
Janet Gonzalez-Mena
"We must be the compassion we wish to see in others."
Janet Gonzalez-Mena
“An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming a new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and then increasing commitment to and engagement in anti-racist actions.”
Louise Derman-Sparks
“The preschool years are critical, they are the first most fundamental period when children are in fact noticing who they are and are noticing the attitudes and the stereotypes and the discomforts or the positive messages about their skin color, their racial identity, their ethnic identity and so on.”
Louise Derman-Sparks
"We as professionals in the early childhood field have a unique opportunity to shape a child’s life for the better."
Sandy Escobido