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Paul's three loops as a focus for "What is understanding?", helped me to construct some new ideas toward applications in my own practice. These last few weeks of self-reflection and Paul's summative pedagogical discussion gave me an opportunity to ask questions and develop my own understanding as applied to my classroom and my students. Here are the three factors implied: my own summary of observations, the students' summaries and the culture of the classroom. Combined, they determine how I and my students will create understandings about science content, about ourselves and about our community.

I was very enthusiastic about my new views that I will incorporate into my practice so when Paul raised his hands at the end of his talk and asked, "Do we have new ideas about understanding?" Immediately, I formed a model that had planets swirling aound Paul's head and heard the dynamic song: This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, harmony and understanding!