Psychology Today | 30.01.2026 04:40
If we were tasked with the mission of creating school and classroom ecosystems that worked for the students who are struggling, what would they look like? Probably not the way most classrooms look now. Most schools and classrooms are structured around the kids who aren’t struggling (either that, or there are just some kids who are going to do well pretty much no matter what). But what would we do differently if we structured things in the opposite direction? Safe in the belief that what works for those who are struggling also works for those who aren’t (and knowing that the reverse is not true), what structures, belief systems, and practices would we change?