Thank you! I am going to put this in the hands of student teachers before they graduate (and will credit you, obviously). So enormously helpful!

Congratulations!!

It's like how learning in schools has basically stopped after the standardized tests since NCLB. My kids report that they watch movies in almost every class for the last month of school; I used to teach content right up to the next to last day.

Like, your critical thinking, reasoning, and intellectual skills are the product. There's not a great shortcut to that product; it's the sum of a million little processes.

or is "required by state learning standards" it's really not that far of a jump to see learning and/or education as a series of products rather than a process where you, the learner, are the product.