Brené Brown

But it also creates an incentive for everybody to excel and also to help each other.

To me, the saddest thing about only 20% of students getting A's is everybody's going to look around thinking my classmates are now my competition.

We can't study together.

We can't learn from each other.

We're not going to collaborate anymore.

Why would you want to pit students against each other to learn when in real life learning is a collaborative activity?

Completely.

And you're solving one problem of giving out EZA's while creating a whole bunch of others.

Wow.

So you're forcing them to have the real conversation about who contributed what?

What a smart way to foster both self-awareness and other awareness.

And I think this should be done in work teams, not just in your class.

Yes.

We do something very similar with group projects where when there's a team presentation, we're not looking at how much each person speaks.

It's, were the talents of every member utilized?

And that could be behind the scenes.

It could be on stage.

It could be in ideas.

It could be in design.

Yeah, sounds like we're driving up the same thing.