I learned it is much nicer to put on a sweater than to sweat!
Seriously, the discussion I had with my partner about the triple journal was invigorating. We discussed the statement about students pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. My partner posed the questions: what if they don't have bootstraps; what if they have them but don't know it? Our responsibility as teachers is to provide students with the tools to identify whether or not they have boots then how to pull those boots up even if they don't have straps on them! It is the students' responsibility to apply those tools.
Good! Let's help our students recognize their options. A large part of what we do is to show students opportunities that they may not have ever heard of before.
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