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I'm choosing 5,6 and 9 because they all seem to tell me one crucial thing: that we should not really be teaching our students what we think we should be teaching them. Of course they need certain content to pass important tests, get diplomas, get in to college, etc, and we need to make sure they have it. But how we teach that content needs to be completetly and totally informed by these 3 principles (can I use that word?) or stories. We have to ask the students constantly what their ideas are; we have to respond to their constructions/stories in an interested and positive way; we have to solicit their input all along the way. They have to generate ideas of their own before they can consider ours. They have to experience the discrepancy between their expectations of how things work and other data before they can construct a new story/ a new way of thinking about things. It seems so clear that we have to hear their stories first, or they will never hear ours.