I’ve discovered that the ‘what’ is not nearly as important as I used to think…Whatever ‘what’ I am given or even that I have decided to teach (when I’ve been lucky enough to make that decision for myself) usually morphs a) depending on who I am teaching and b) depending on the conversations we have and the depth of our relationship as teacher/learners.

Alternatively, when it is a high-stakes state mandated ‘what’ I can even look at it as making my job easier. This way I have the content given to me and only need to worry about building our relationship and modelling my love for learning and for my students around that context.