Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

And when that happened well and according to plan, that's the definition of a good student.

And Ted was deeply disheartened by this approach.

And it came out in his real dislike and failure to move on from thinking about this behavior chart that she had in the class, which was not

which was not in any of his other classes in the school, where she had, you know, kind of green on the top, you're doing what you're supposed to do, yellow in the middle, like you're getting in hot water, and red meaning like, you know, you're behaving badly, right?

And kids' little clips were moving up and down on this.

And he finally was so upset about it.

And she didn't understand how, if he was always on green, it was a problem.

And what he wrote to her in a letter finally was that it's like when I get to school every day, he says, I think it's a new day.

And I get there to try to learn something new and exciting.

And instead I see the dot, dot, dot bad behavior chart.

Right.

And he says, this fact makes me very uncomfortable.

And he goes on to explain how it's as if the teacher is trying to dare me to do something bad.

It's like what he's really saying is I thought school was about ideas and

and learning, and you're telling me it's about compliance and behavior.

We had one teacher who invited us to see the class that he had designed as a review for his civics class, high school civics class, the review before the final exam.

It was before the winter holiday.

He had a holiday playlist playing of music in the background.

He had made a game where he put up on the board questions with multiple choice and kids were in

teams with whiteboards and they had to write down what they thought their answer was.