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  1. Nov 2023
    1. the coaches gave teachers strategies designed to help them build a “positive emotional climate” and show “sensitivity to student needs for autonomy.”

      This makes me think of the parent education written about earlier in this book.

    2. At the same time, Turnaround’s staff works to improve the classroom environment as a whole, coaching teachers on strategies to improve students’ academic outcomes by improving their experience in class.

      Like how Turnaround works with both students and teachers to make change.

    3. BAM seems to work by influencing the important mental functions that a stress-filled childhood tends to impair, like impulse control and the ability to successfully manage aggressive feelings.

      This is evidence that it is possible to overcome a less than desirable early childhood.