Raising expectations is aim of new effort

The idea to pair students and teachers into teacher workshops is one of the main points of the article. I was very happy to see some of the initial results that were described. It seems like an idea that is long over due but I am skeptical of how well it would work with elementary schools. I know that some of the students were in 5th grade and that, I would think, would need to be the cut-off grade. The open dialogue between teachers and students here I think would be difficult for the younger grades. Although, I do have all of my students teach each other in class because it is proven to help them learn.  For that matter we all learn best when having to evaluate what we are doing on such a level where we have to turn around and teach it.