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Fine.

Honestly, I can’t find this book right now but it was super informative to my teaching of discussions. Going to consider it finished.

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only just started but already im so impressed - ive always been so thankful to have kay as a teacher abd this is only adding to that

Key points so far:
Listening matters: listen patiently, listen actively, police your voice

Create an environment that encourages house talk: burn five minutes, good news, and high-grade compliments

The author has challenged quite a few of my instructional practices while at the same time confirming things that I’ve always believed about teaching and true learning.

A whole chapter on having a purpose in discussion and examining your own unexpressed (and possibly selfish) motivations in having conversations about controversial issues with students? Yes please.

If you are a teacher, please read this.

Loving this so far. Like the subtitle suggests, it really is about talking to kids and how the way we talk to them and guide them to talk to each other is more important than almost anything else.

This is tremendously good not just for talking about race but for conversations generally in the classroom.

I’m not very far into the book, but I’ve already learned so much - not just for my classroom, but about listening better and engaging people in important, real dialogue.