For the second edition of Teaching That Matters, I have chosen a new title: Conversation Classrooms: A Profound Shift from Delivery of Information to Partnership. Through conversations, you will build relationships with your students, and students will do so with one another.

No longer will you come to class with an agenda that delivers information for students to receive and later return on quizzes and tests. Instead, you will see yourself on a bridge where you bring information to share to invite thinking, wondering, questioning, ideas, respect. Where experience is the center of your classroom, where mutual understanding is intrinsic, everyone free to express ideas, everyone having the right to speak, and everyone listens. You are your students are learning together.

Education is not about treating the brain as a vessel to be filled. It is not about asking for regurgitation of what’s been delivered. To educate, from the Latin educere, means to lead out, to lead forth. Each day different. Each class different. Some groups are naturally curious, others ask lots of questions, and others remain quiet. Some students ‘get it,’ others struggle. And each day is a new day, a new opportunity to learn and think––for students and teacher. And an opportunity for students and teachers to know themselves better