Chapter 97

Aria's POV

The six teachers arrived at their placements in early spring within the same two-week window, which meant the first round of midpoint journals arrived within the same two-week window eight weeks later, which meant Beth and I spent the better part of a week reading and thinking and talking about what we were receiving.

The journals were, without exception, more honest than we'd anticipated.

Not because we'd expected dishonesty. Because the framework had asked for working documents rather than reports, and practitioners who were given permission to think on the page rather than summarize for an audience produced something categorically different. These were people processing in...