CHAPTER 1
THE NEW ART OF IDEAS
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
ALBERT SZENT-GYÖRGYI
One semester, I had a student who was academically underprepared and required so much attention that his needs were hampering my ability to teach the other students in the class. To support this student and allow myself the class time to work with everyone equally, I thought: How can I make him more independent during class time? I remembered Dale, my former dance instructor, who had told me he used a checklist before every performance. “Pilots use checklists with step-by-step checks for takeoff, flight, ...
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