“The ideas of beawolf ain’t gonna go nowhere.” <—My first complete sentence to an MLA style paper about Beowulf. My English teachers in high school changed and edited my trajectory with my writing and with . . . my life. Writing is a process like life. We’re all in a process of becoming. Remember that. Make mistakes and keep your voice. And, take the guidance along the way.” SchoolEducationTeachingHigh SchoolTeachers Author:Jill Telford
“They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children” ChildrenSchoolEducationTeachingPrison Author:Jill Telford
“There is so much to learn. There is so much to teach. There is never enough time until you pick it all up and carry it all outside of the classroom.” EducationLearningTeaching Author:Jill Telford
“We need to reframe our way of thinking. We shouldn't be asking will Johnny be ready for Kindergarten? Instead we should be asking ourselves if we are ready for him.” ChildrenQuotesEducationKindergartenEce Author:Jill Telford
“I AM A TEACHER. We ARE teachers. We’re not daycare workers. We’re not taking care of days. We’re taking care of children. We will define ourselves.” WritingEducationTeachingPreschoolDaycare Author:Jill Telford
“Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.” EducationLearningPublic SchoolsLife Long Learning Author:Jill Telford
“I am a Head Start child still at heart.” ChildrenStoriesEducationBooksHead Start Author:Jill Telford
“If I could change one thing about our schools it would be to transform all schools into communities of care and project based experiential learning through play where the focus is less on results and more on the process. Instead of zero tolerance policies we would have tolerance policies where it is okay to make mistakes. Schools would be centered on taking care of ourselves, each other and our environment driven by care not data. I believe all children have the right to love and freedom to explore not restrained.” ChildrenEducationMistakesTeachersSchoolsFamilies Author:Jill Telford