New slide: Can the quirky kid thrive?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the quirky kids in my classroom lately:

(download slide and view original image credit on Flickr)

I’m not sure that I like my own answer to this question—-but shouldn’t it be a question that we think about a little more carefully as we sprint towards a common core?

#justsayin

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Original Image Credit: Confused, Alone and Scared Today by Nina Mathews Photography

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/3621797460/

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution on April 10, 2011