Student Report: "Connect" Leads to Learning

At a recent NBC student panel airing on "Voices of a Nation," students made clear what matters most in how we learn.  See "Twenty Things Students Want the Nation to Know About Education." Seven of the twenty items students wanted the nation to know have something to do with: "connect with us."

For example:

# 3: "I can't learn from you if you are not willing to connect with me."

Or

#12: "Tell me something good that I'm doing so I can keep growing in that."

Learning somehow always connects with narrative--both the students and the teachers' narrative. Maybe even the community's narrative, too?

See some of the other twenty items the students suggested--such as #s 6, 14, 15, 18, 19.