{"id":253,"date":"2013-08-13T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tiie-vlog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2016-02-28T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T18:26:09","slug":"how-one-teacher-learned-to-let-go-and-trust-her-students-to-lead-their-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/how-one-teacher-learned-to-let-go-and-trust-her-students-to-lead-their-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"How one teacher learned to let go and trust her students to lead their learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we’re all over here recovering from the epic spectacle that was this year’s Code Camp, please enjoy Shelly Wright’s TEDTalk, on her journey as a teacher.<\/p>\n

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They’re all excited and they’re telling people, and texting and I’m thinking this is gonna be awesome, you know? We’ll raise a couple thousand dollars, the kids’ll feel like they’re important, this’ll be great.<\/p>\n

And so, the next day we come back to school and my students come back to the class and they say, “Mrs. Wright, we have decided on a goal…We have decided that we want to raise ten thousand<\/i> dollars.”<\/p>\n

Inside my head I’m thinking, “Oh. My. Gosh. Do you have any idea how much money ten thousand dollars is???”<\/p>\n

And my outside voice said, “That’s awesome! How do you propose we do that?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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