NAME:
Dr. Diane Schlauch
SCHOOL:
Vance Middle School
My heart's desire is to help people learn to live their best lives using the
lives they have been given.
All children belong...accept the challenge!
At this very moment, there are people only you can reach...and differences
only you can make. ~ Michael Dooley
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, author (1803-1873)
Any time a change takes place in the future, it starts as a vision in
someone’s mind. The person draws other people into that vision, and when
enough people are drawn in to share that vision, it explodes into activity.
~ Nancy Hathaway
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day
to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible.
~ T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but where we are
going. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
~ Christopher Reeve
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but
to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
One cannot effectively lead students outward without starting from the place
where they currently reside. ~ John Dewey
In every difficult or troubled time, a student ought to be able to look
around and see a teacher standing in his or her corner. ~ Unknown
Our task is to provide an education for the kinds of kids we have, not the
kinds of kids we used to have, or want to have, or the kids that exist in our
dreams. ~ K.P. Gerlack
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within
himself. ~ Galileo
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. ~ Anonymous
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means
of education. ~ Mark Twain
One of the beauties of teaching is there is no limit to one's growth as a
teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your students can
learn. ~ Herbert Kohl
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he
can do. ~ John Stuart Mill
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one
where they sprang up. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice
(1841-1935)
When the task becomes too great, the hill too hard to climb, pause a minute
and remember why you started. ~ Destiny2909
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we
are for what we could become. ~ Charles DuBois
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put
our heart. ~ John Ruskin
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he
[or she] is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must
be. ~ Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ~ Chuang-Tzu,
philosopher (4th c. BCE)
Curriculum is the experience; education is what you leave with. ~ College
Student
LIFE is a succession of lessons which must be learned to be understood.
~ Helen Keller
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to
the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label
of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem
important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ~ Thomas J. Watson
It’s OK to think about what you want to do until it is time to do what you
are meant to do. ~ The Rookie
You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming. ~ Edmund O'Neill
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work,
and my God. ~ Helen Keller
You have never been given a dream without also being given the means to make
it come true. ~ Richard Bach
But shouldn’t a group of teachers be talking about teaching and learning? We
seem to have missed the whole IDEA. ~ College Student
One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new
places where even the educator has never been. ~ Thomas Groome
The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting
knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. ~ Henri
Frederic Amiel
The important thing is not so much that every child be taught as that every
child should be given the wish to learn. ~ John Lubbock
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a
desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~ Horace Mann
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great
equalizer of the conditions of men – the balance wheel of the social
machinery. ~ Horace Mann
If it ain’t broke, you can probably still fix it. ~ Tim Allen
To the world you may be only one person, but to one person you may be the
world. ~ Unknown
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and
should be, and he will become as he can and should be. ~ Goethe
We have a choice to make: We can do for them the rest of their lives, or we
can teach them how to do it for the rest of their lives. ~ College Student
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most
insignificant success is achieved. ~ Annie Sullivan
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: Tenderness for
what he is and respect for what he may become. ~ Louis Pasteur
Much I have learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from
my students. ~ Talmud
Teachers who successfully teach students without disabilities have the skills
to successfully teach students with disabilities. ~ Michael Giangreco
A good teacher is a good teacher for students with disabilities.
~ Diane Schlauch
Only when educators think of themselves as learners, with continuous
opportunities to learn, can they create environments for all their students
to become lifelong learners. ~ Susan Loucks-Horsley
Where teachers learn best, students learn more! ~ Joan Richardson
"Handicaps" are as much the product of building design [curriculum design,
instructional design] as of human anatomy and physiology [or ability].
~ Universal Design Principle
When the special education system itself is 'reformed', it will no longer
seek its own 'niche' in the reform literature, but rather should be seen as a
productive element of general education reform issues. ~ B. Pazey
The inclusion movement will never be an effective educational reform strategy
with an exclusive focus on children with disabilities. ~ W. W. Malloy
Inclusion is a process of meshing general and special education reform
initiatives and strategies in order to achieve a unified system of public
education that incorporates all children and youths as active, fully
participating members of the school community; that views diversity as the
norm; and that ensures a high-quality education for each student by providing
meaningful curriculum, effective teaching, and necessary supports for each
student. ~ Dianne Ferguson
When inclusion becomes reality, "inclusion" will cease to be. ~ Diane Schlauch
Life Is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away. ~ Helen Steiner Rice
One of the most wonderful things about life is that there's always so much
more to know, so much more to discover. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
