The document discusses the inevitability of change and the importance of embracing growth through change. It contains quotes from several individuals emphasizing that change is constant, failure to change can be fatal, and that in order for students to grow educators must be willing to change their teaching methods rather than expecting students to adapt without changes being made.

1. Change

2. Most of us would rather hold on to
a familiar pain than trade it for an
unfamiliar pleasure.

3. Change is inevitable;
growth is optional.

4. The only
person who
loves change
is a baby!
- Ray Blitzer -

5. The only
thing
constant
is
constant
CHANGE!

6. We must stop
being the
objects of
change and
become the…

7. Most people desire change…
they just resist being changed!

8. Failure is
not fatal,
but failure to change
might be.
- John Wooden -

9. In schools, treading water is no longer
an option.
School people must either propel
themselves in some direction, be towed, or
sink.

10. We must be willing to change what we
do in our classrooms so students can
grow – not hope that students can
grow so we don’t have to change what
we do in our classrooms.
- Todd
Whitaker

11. Changing the curriculum is like moving
a cemetery – until you try it, you will
never realize how many friends the
dead have.

12. To learn to fly, you have to leave the
ground.
You can’t taxi forever. - Todd Whitaker -