I got this from Bob Patrick today. Can’t wait to hear the responses:
Ben,
I and a lot of others on your blog and on TPRS throw around the term “four percenters”. I would very much like to know what we all mean when we use the term.
I find my work has two prongs to it right now: first and foremost, the ongoing work of CI in my classroom, and secondarily, creating and fostering conversations with my Latin teaching colleagues, enticing them into the CI movement. No one else need share those two prongs, but they are mine. The reality of the four percenters is essential to that second prong. I don’t have a good way of articulating what that is to my colleagues. I know it in my gut. I can see it in the eyes of my kids.
Can you, or the community of your blog readers jump in on this and give me some very short elevator definitions of who the four percenters are? It’s a short elevator ride – 30 seconds at most.
Thanks.
Bob
