"If real learning is to take place, our classrooms must be dependent on the collaboration of its learners...

“Every day that you teach you have two options: be focused, passionate and caring, or to be focused, passionate and caring.” Robert John Meehan

"Teaching often requires risk, acceptance of novelty, rejection of any form of discrimination and always requires a critical reflection of its current practices." Robert John Meehan

"If real learning is to take place, our classrooms must be dependent on the collaboration of its learners, not solely on the knowledge of its teachers." Robert John Meehan

 “When I observed my students... I could often predict which ones were probably going to fulfill their dreams later in life. It wasn't necessarily the ones who failed the least. It was the students who failed, but kept at it until they got it.”  Robert John Meehan

 "As teachers, we believe that we are called to teach and that this calling, though often times requiring personal sacrifice, must be fulfilled to the most prodigious benefit of our students."  Robert John Meehan

"We need to trust ourselves enough to recognize that how we are teaching now, though it worked for a while, may no longer be as effective." Robert John Meehan

   "Did you have a favorite teacher because he or she was able to prepare you for a multiple choice test or because he/she inspired you?" Robert John Meehan

 "A gifted teacher is not only prepared to meet the needs of today's child, but is also prepared to foresee the hopes and dreams in every child's future." Robert John Meehan

"Becoming an exemplary teacher is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of the choices we make; it is not something that simply comes with experience, it is something that must be purposefully achieved." Robert John Meehan