Allow others to learn.

I lead a morning first-second grade circle, and this morning I presented this week's student slogan: Allow others to learn.  This is also our second school agreement, and today we role-modeled how following this agreement might feel, both to the person learning and to those allowing the learning to occur.  The simple exercise was to have one student read a book to herself, while the other students sat silently, though in attendance  of the reading and the atmosphere being created for the reader.  After doing this for a minute, I first asked the students how it felt to allow the student to learn.  One student said it was boring and another student replied that she like being quiet and that it reminded her of independent reading time (also done silently).  I then asked the student who was reading, and she said it felt good.    There was no right or wrong responses to the exercise, just an opportunity to connect to the school agreement from the inside-out.