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Post: I won't Learn

Posted by Bill on 4/18/08

Susan, I'm reminded of Esme Codell's "trouble basket" with
which she greeted her students at the door. The students
pantomimed dropping their troubles into the basket before
they enter the room.

It helped them to imagine that troubles can be
extinguished, at least for a short time, and that it is
possible to choose to focus on something else. It also
indicated to her how heavy her students perceived their
burdens to be.

I discovered that when I talked to one of my troubled
junioir students during the first minute or two of the
transition into my class, he was fine. When I didn't, he
had "issues."

What I didn't get, however, was how the boy got so far
along in his schooling and no one had made a record of what
worked with him and passed it along to the rest of us.

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