Shoulder to shoulder

I have become aware more and more that though we are individuals and thrive on recognition of our own ideas/skills/talents, its when we put those ideas/skills/talents into an arena which contains people we trust and will help us to build these areas of our lives (while we help build theirs) we begin to see true success.

A single chord rope is easily broken...a 3 chord rope is so much stronger.

When we put our ideas etc... out there and they are knocked back its those around us we trust who lift us up and say 'try again!'

Within our classrooms we should be trying to build environments in which students are building peer relationships which allow them to experience the impact of the '3 chord rope' where their peers encourage them to try and then pick them and up and say 'try again!'