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take up your penTake up your pen. Jumping jacks and cultivating trust. July 20, 2016. By take up your pen. When I decided to become an educator, it never occurred to me that I might have to do jumping jacks to gain my students’ trust. And I don’t mean metaphorical jumping jacks, I mean them in the very literal sense. There is a saying that goes something like, “Students don’t care what you know until they know that you care.” And I think the saying is actually about trust. Here is the picture. Student A: “Awwwww! Studen...
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