Jennifer Ledwith

I earned this grade.

The first thing I ask before I tell them my thoughts, because usually I'm very, very excited.

But the first thing I do is I ask, how do you feel about that?

And I think for them to know that someone cares about how they feel about certain things, I think that offers them buy-in.

In fact, my students beat me to class.

And I think it's because they know that they're going to get that care.

They're going to get that concern.

But they, yes, they will get the lesson as well.

They will get the lesson as well.

Yes.

Well, I just let them do it.

If they go do the shortcut and, you know, sometimes the shortcut works and I'll tell them, hey, as long as your method is yielding correct results, you're comfortable with it and you can do it consistently.

I'm going to leave you alone.

But because I've done this for over 20 years, I know what's not going to work.

So what I do is I just say, OK, you want to use that shortcut?

Go do it.

Go ahead.

Do it.

And tell me what happens.

And then I see what happens and they'll come back.