Ashland Elementary School, 2nd Grade

“You reap what you sow.”

"If you sow high expectations in children, you reap children with high expectations for themselves. Following along this same line of reasoning…if you have high expectations, students will achieve at high levels. If you have low expectations, students will achieve at low levels. Therefore, children should be encouraged daily to their best in whatever is good, noble and honorable. What I portray to my students in words and in actions is summed up in the following quote: 'Do the best you can do… that is all I can expect of you.' I support this by accepting nothing less (as far as I am able to perceive or gage to be a student’s best), but requiring nothing more."