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Confident this will be my favorite story of the day. Students recognize toxic school culture around competition, take concrete steps to address it. insidehighered.com/admissions/art…
This is a high school in Palo Alto that had been subjected to a "suicide cluster." Here's a story on it from four years ago. One wonders why administrators and parents couldn't have put 2 and 2 together years ago to do what the students did. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
My teaching changed when I started listening to students, both what they were saying explicitly and what their actions implied. Their lack of engagement with writing wasn't a character defect, it was based in prior experiences that made writing a miserable experience.
Students love learning. They're curious, easily engaged and will work incredibly hard on something they find worthwhile which makes students exactly like every other human being on the planet. A culture of competition does nothing to further the goals of learning. Students get it
