Next Steps in the Journey: Living Our Bottom Lines for Teaching

Wilhelm proposes that “we use the concept of ‘bottom lines’ as a heuristic to think about our teaching every day: what did we do that fit our bottom lines? What would we have done differently?” He argues for renaming our subject “personal studies” so that everything would connect to our students’ need to explore and express their own identities, and would focus on “relatedness” and having “hard fun” that would make our work meet both personal and disciplinary standards.