wrote, filmed, and created the final products. i am in the classroom with them every day, and think that i know what makes them tick…and sometimes i get lucky and plan something that turns out to be spectacular. even though i spend so much time with them, i still plan units that flop, and even with the “spectacular ones” there are groups and individuals who flounder and fail. in many ways i still don’t get them. i have taught for 22 years, probably one of the few teachers who have taught that long in the same grade, and i still haven’t totally figured them out, and each year i have 