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"We want to take the existing unit plans and adjust the language so they are more globally accessible and do 5-to-10-minute interviews with teachers about the unit and with students to talk about how they learned and what they created," she says. Her goal is to have the written unit and about 20 minutes of video so teachers can see and hear how a unit works. "We want teachers to see the learning potential of the unit. Over the next three years we plan to build out as many SLA units as we can."

I have made a terrible mistake. I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a student for a day. It was so eye-opening that I wish I could go back to every class of students I ever had right now and change a minimum of ten things - the layout, the lesson plan, the checks for understanding. Most of it!