It's time to get serious. This is the year it all counts. Hey, if you don't buckle down now, you'll be really behind.

No one is going to let you get by with that kind of work ethic, Mr.

Not everything can be fun.

This is what everyone in school is doing.

Of course you can do it too.

Sound familiar.

Parents. Parents for generations have uttered these unhelpful lines to

unwitting children expecting a different outcome.

Because let's face it, did those lines work on you?

When your parents told you to buckle down to work harder

that not everything can be fun.

Did your little hearts well with love and appreciation

for those parents?

Did you, in fact, buckle down?

This episode of the podcast is about the subtle difference between rigor and

relaxed alertness. Many parents are under the impression that rigor is the best version of learning.

Education that is seen as rigorous means students are learning more.

Rigor is seen as a measuring tool for how serious the institution is about learning.

When you go shopping for a private school or you are looking at a magnet school.

One of the yardsticks parents use is,

is it academically rigorous enough.

So today on this podcast, we're going to deconstruct the notion of rigor and see if we can replace it with something that is actually easier to implement and more effective for learning. Stay with me.

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