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What is the Purpose: Prevention or Diagnosis?

Posted on January 6, 2017

“What was the purpose of that?” my principal asked before I was all the way through her door. The first time she asked me this question, to be honest, I think my eyes filled with tears. I believed by asking that question, she was implying my carefully planned lesson was pointless. It turned out, that was just “her thing.” She began every post observation and reflection session with that same question. She wanted to make sure that her teachers always