#7 – RESPECT

After 25+ years in secondary education, I’ve lost count of how many times a student has told me a teacher was disrespectful only to describe some low-level expectation such as being told to put their phone away. That exchange reveals something worth sitting with: we’ve confused respect with deference. When students (and adults) treat respect […]

#6 – VIRTUE

Here’s the thing about virtue; it’s messy. It doesn’t matter how long I take trying to figure out what it actually means, because I will never come to a definition that everyone can agree on. What I consider virtuous might make you roll your eyes, and vice versa. That’s the tricky part about trying to […]