Independent Learners

In my third year of teaching/learning, I accepted a position at a school that did not make AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) on the previous year's state standardized assessments. My new role was to work with all of the students who had missed proficiency in math at that school.
(It obviously was a high-performing school. I've since worked at many schools in which most of the student body missed Proficiency on the state test.s)

This was the year in which I began to truly learn how to teach, because all of my students had significant gaps in both soft and hard skills, and I wanted them all to experience success. Fast forward, by the end of the school year 95% of my math students reached Proficiency and even Advanced on the state test. There's a lot to be said here, but that's not the theme of this webpage.

You see, after I learned of our successses that year, I soon after realized that I would not be seeing those students again, since in the next school year they'd be leaving to a different school building. So, how were the students going to be able to maintain and replicate this success with a different teacher?

This was when I realized I needed to build the capacity for my future students to become independent learners--that is for them to develop the work habits and study skills necessary to become successful for whichever teacher (or boss later on) that they would have. That moment changed my approach to education forever.

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