As I was reading this post it made me think of a song by one of my new favorite bands, Dawes.The song is called “How Far We’ve Come” and there is a line from this song that has always stuck out to me, and I believe connects to this post; “the only point of looking back is to see how far we’ve come.” I love this line because it shows that reflection is quite possibly the most powerful tool to keep us moving forward. Not to dwell in the past but to learn from it, to realize how far we’ve come, and to figure out where we are going next. I love the partnership you’ve created in your classroom and I dream of the day when every teacher in the world states with such conviction that “we are the people who do the hard stuff” and not only that, we do it together and it is okay (or dare I say even better!) if our answers aren’t the same, or how we get to those answers and that the answers are never endings but almost always beginnings. Lighting a fire in your students to “discover the answers for themselves” while you too find your own answers; what beautiful learning that is. Teach on, or shall I say learn on! Cannot wait to read more!

Beth
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