Our late circle today was to think about two sets of resolutions: two or three for yourself in terms of the work and two or three for the larger group with the caveat that it has to be something you think we can all agree to. Now they are humans so at least a third decided to write their own resolutions around personal stuff.

We didn’t share the personal ones but we did spend fifteen minutes as a group coming to consensus on what might work for the whole group: committing to one microphone. We’ll come back to this idea tomorrow and try and figure out what it means. One thing I did have to get involved with was when a student claimed that this was a problem all students have; I had to underscore that this is not an everyone problem, that almost all of them manage “one mic” very well.

It led to a human group problem: if everyone offers a side comment once every five minutes then you’ll have side conversations going pretty much continuously.

My two work resolutions:
1. Grade thirty minutes each night.
2. Meet with each student one-on-one once a week. I started this yesterday.