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Paul, guests, and fellow participants have forever changed my perspective on many issues. It isn't every professional development opportunity that results in my feeling that I know myself better because I have grown more skeptical of my own ideas, have greater clarity about why I teach and what I want learning to look like in the classroom, and provides me with a solid foundation for bringing this knowledge back to school.

I have a new way to think about my classroom. For years, students have developed our class charter and I've only had one "teacher rule" in the room---that no one can get in the way of anyone else's learning. This year I will modify the one teacher rule for the 5/6 grade and clearly articulate it as, no one can get in the way of anyone else's learning, AND each person in the classroom is responsible for the learning of the other members of our classroom community.

I will be creating an interdisciplinary unit of study on the brain and behavior for my 5/6 grade class and will post it on Serendip.