I’ve talked before about the struggles in moving independent project work along. The latest tattoo is:

“Two pages written, fifty pages read, ten hours of work.”

The activity for today was to think about why I had selected these three instead of all the other pieces I might have insisted on. Then the students made lists of what else might have been on the list and why. It was a telling list:

This was definitely one of those moments where I feel like the kids are becoming genuine masters of the project design process.