“The response is not: ‘You are bad, you need to leave.’ The response is: ‘What you did was wrong, so we need to fix that.’”

— Allison Payne (Villanova University), quoted in “What Is Restorative Justice, and How Can It Be Implemented in Schools?” by Brooke Schultz in Education Week, June 19, 2024

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.”

— John Dewey, School and Society

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— Buckminster Fuller

“Without clarity about who is responsible for performing specific tasks, it’s impossible to have accountability.”

— Jeff Grimshaw, Gregg Baron (Leadership Without Excuses)

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

— Harry S. Truman