I said, "To lose a page, I understand, out of the Book of Life".
That's something he got to understand out there because there was so much combat".
They need to be encountered and understood out there — through patient, strategic and often uncomfortable negotiations that recognize the value of listening as much as talking.
He said to me, "Tell me why you are here".I said, "To lose a page, I understand, out of the Book of Life".
This is a welcome acknowledgement that student performance is highly varied and cannot be understood out of context.
The tough part is listening without interruption and even asking for more because you genuinely want to understand out of love and care.
There's a lot that we don't understand out there; we're just beginning to eat our way through it.
This is because Twitter messages are short and often part of longer conversations that cannot be understood out of context.
If there's just one small thing that they understood out of what you've said to them, talk about that point and add your other points to it, one at a time.
And many of those who think they understand turn out to be disastrously wrong.
