suburban/rural environment by comparison, do you feel listened to? i do. but i don t think that my experience is the norm. people say i m an english teacher, ergo i teach english literature. but i don t. i teach children. one of the mistakes we make oftentimes is we silo even the conversations we have as teachers, right. so i m blessed to be able to work with incredible teachers all over the country. i feel like i have a profound amount of learning that goes on for me as a high school teacher when i m sitting in a kindergarten classroom. so i think that for us, it s but this doesn t happen often enough, particularly in urban schools where there s this constant influx and focus on program instead of on people and