1. [When teachers don't expect all their students to succeed, students will respond as if this were true] Some kids simply don't have the ability to do math. I think I have to be honest with them, so I tell them that some of them won't make it. To do otherwise would just cause more pain later on," Clay explained.
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2. [Teachers should be involved in decision-making about goals, curricula and program monitoring] Attempts to significantly increase students' levels of achievement have shown that increasing the achievement levels for an entire school population requires changing the structure of the school. Such attempts have shown that the only way to improve a school's structure is by involving teachers with decisions about how the school is operated; teachers must be involved in all types of decisions, ranging from practices in curriculum development to decisions about what the school wants to accomplish and how best to spend its funds to achieve these goals.
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3. [When teachers don't expect all their students to succeed, students will respond as if this were true] Some kids simply don't have the ability to do math. I think I have to be honest with them, so I tell them that some of them won't make it. To do otherwise would just cause more pain later on," Clay explained.
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