Looking back in my 26 years in education, I can’t think of a time when a book like this was needed more. Increasingly, we struggle to teach more in less time, prepare students for tests we often find not useful or descriptive, and stay on top of the field by reading new professional titles and research—and we do it all alone. We earnestly seek to improve our teaching practice, but discover how difficult it is to reflect on teaching when we’re so busy just doing it! When we seek another colleague’s perspective, we find that we can’t even have lunch with her—her students are already back in class when.
