Quotes

//**– Steven Covey**//
 * We only get one chance to prepare our students for a future that none of us can possibly predict. What are we going to do with that one chance?**

If we are putting all of our efforts on the almighty test score alone, I am afraid that we are going to create a generation of children who know how to do nothing but take a test well. // – Muriel Summers, Principal, A.B. Combs Elementary //

Leadership is doing what's right, even if no one is watching.

All children smile in the same language.

It always seems impossible until it's done. //– Nelson Mandela//

In years to come, your students may forget what you taught them. But they will always remember how you made them feel. // – Sign in A.B. Combs faculty room, author unknown //

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great! // – Jim Collins, Good to Great //

When people comment on the joy they feel when they are in this building, and the happiness they feel, it is because we are a team with a common vision and a common mission. // – Martha Bassett, Art Teacher, A.B. Combs Elementary //

The research is clear; nothing motivates a child more than when learning is valued by schools and families/community working together in partnership...These forms of involvement do not happen by accident or even by invitation. They happen by explicit strategic intervention. // – Michael Fullen //

The world is very complicated and changing. The challenges we face today are not the same challenges young people will face tomorrow. So we felt the best way to anchor our students was through teaching timeless principals. // – Mr. Francis Foo, Chua Chu Kang Primary School, Singapore //

The first thing I look at when hiring is skills. Skills get people in the door to be interviewed. But what gets them hired and what keeps them hired is character. // – Donnie Lane, CEO, Enersolv //

This is not "one more thing" we have to do. THis is a better way of doing what we already do. –Bernie Norton, Principal Nash Elementary, Texarkana, Texas

Treat a man as he is and you make him worse than he is. Treat a man as he has the potential to become and you make him better than he is. // –Goethe //

We have not created anything new. What we have done is bring together the best thinking that is out there and identified how it all aligns to create a culture of learning. // – Gailya Winters, Assistant Principal, A.B. Combs Elementary //

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and let him know that you trust him. // – Booker T. Washington //