Michelle Collay > Quotes

“As my professor remarked after he heard me say I was learning to play the bassoon, “No, you’re playing the bassoon. Someday you’ll play it better!”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“We educators have chosen to work with all students, taking responsibility to do our best with the materials and resources we have.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“Disciplines do have status, and we judge others as representatives of their disciplines.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“have always questioned acceptance of a hierarchical “ladder” of professional responsibility in schools. In a relatively flat organization with students at the center of the enterprise, most teachers need resources and support, not a supervisor.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“teachers lead by working directly with students and others who influence student learning inside and beyond the classroom. Teachers act on behalf of students by planning instruction, creating curriculum, collaborating with colleagues, taking initiative, taking the lead, and co-constructing practice on numerous levels.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“Education is ever-changing, even though some of our practices aren’t evolving as quickly as our students are.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“If instructional expertise and cultural competence, or the ability to teach across difference, are essential to improving student achievement, then teachers are educational leaders with the greatest scope of influence”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are

“Teachers lead by taking actions that improve the conditions of learning for others.”
― Michelle Collay, Everyday Teacher Leadership: Taking Action Where You Are