Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts. We have to bridge the distance between us so that they can "connect one mind to another within relationships" (Siegel, 1999, p. 131) and learn.
