"Your students consistently fail to perform well on high stakes tests. What would you do?"

Excellent post from a teacher at Boston Renaissance Charter School.

My co-teacher and I decided to spend Tuesday afternoon learning how our urban fourth graders solve problems. We put the desks in a circle, presented the kids with a series of real life situations and then asked them how they would react...

Scenario Four: You missed your bus. What would you do?

• I would run after it and pop the tire.
• I would get a ladder and put it in front of the bus so the driver would think it broke down.
• I get on at the first stop so I would run as fast as I could to get to the last stop.