Do you (and your students) know who you are fighting?
Most don’t. And that missing knowledge? It’s where student success quietly unravels.
See, we all work hard to help students scale the rock — GPAs, test scores, college prep courses. It’s tough, but it’s visible. We know how to climb it, and we’ve built entire support systems to help.
But there’s another opponent in this story — the hard place.
The hard place is like the “hidden curriculum,” but it’s not the same. It’s not even something we talk about.
But it’s very real.
The hard place is made of the invisible expectations, unspoken roles, and hidden assumptions that silently trip students up — and wear educators out.
If we are helping students climb the rock, then who is battling the hard place?
My new video, The Rock vs. The Hard Place, digs into this unseen struggle.
It’s short. It’s sharp. And it might just shift how you think about your work.
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