An important repost at this time of year:
I keep thinking about what Krista said about the 5-7 extrovert kids:
..shy students who are brave enough to volunteer a suggestion but then don’t have their suggestion chosen, are, in my experience, quite reluctant to ever volunteer again. The stories then revolve around the 5-7 most talkative kids in class, leaving others out….
That is something no one has ever talked about. And that can’t be allowed to continue, even though it’s been going on for how many years/decades?
Jen provides the solution in a comment she made here this morning:
.. even those, when we got a good character going, were still in the realm of the 5-7 extroverts taking over the reins. And I allowed it, thinking I needed those details, but really what I needed more was to get the group together and to showcase each child ….