“I’m delighted that pre-kindergarten teachers throughout Illinois will have this set of standards to guide their teaching. Standards are tools to help teachers plan curriculum, set goals, and evaluate themselves and their children. Used wisely and sensitively, the standards will have a positive effect on teaching and learning in pre-kindergarten classrooms. The challenge facing all of us is to apply these standards in an individualized way and in a manner that will create opportunities for all children to succeed.”
Samuel J. Meisels, Erikson Institute
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams