Respecting Others' Points of View Is Theme of Our Response to Education Week's Classroom Q&A

The ability to understand and respect other individuals' points of view is a vital skill that students of all ages should learn. That was a theme that Marcus and I stressed in responding to a question posed by Education Week as a
part of the popular Classroom Q&A with Larry Ferlazzo.

The

question
for this blog post was: "When two or more students are having a conflict, what are the most

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