Whole Brain Teaching Quotes

“Terrible as this is, there’s worse news. An article in the New York Times points out a statistic that should make our nation’s leaders tremble… suspension rates, kindergarten through high school, have nearly doubled from the early 1970s through 2006. Whatever is happening with our test scores, something else, something catastrophic, is going on in our schools. As countless teachers across America can testify, disruptive kids are hijacking our classrooms.”
― Chris Biffle, Whole Brain Teaching: 122 Amazing Games!: Challenging Kids, Classroom Management, Writing, Reading, Math, Common Core/State Tests

“It is certainly true that no child should be left behind. A greater truth is that no child should be permitted to hold other children behind. Our nation’s education experts are missing the point. Reading is not the problem. Math proficiency is not the problem. Test scores, which everyone obsesses over, are not the problem. The problem is that disruptive students are driving teachers batty. One third of all new teachers leave after three years; almost half bail out in five years. Every day, this should be the newspaper headline:”
― Chris Biffle, Whole Brain Teaching: 122 Amazing Games!: Challenging Kids, Classroom Management, Writing, Reading, Math, Common Core/State Tests