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What's going on in the minds of my students? What's their stories? Maybe I can make better connections with them this year, than I did last year (my first at this school.) I actually ride through West philly hoping to see students from my school on the street...Should I get them to like me or should I get them to like science? Wil and I had a conversation (maybe it was with others) where he said that what you do downstream may be made less important by what happens upstream. But as a science teacher with an environmental slant, I have to make them (my charges) believe that their small changes impact the whole world. Why else would environmental concerns tell us to modify our behaviors? We know George W. Bush doesn't care about the planet's health and niether do billions of others. But I will continue to try to get my students to change, as they can have an effect on the Earth- it all starts with their sense of science at their place where they live, play, study and grow.