The most interesting thing in the room

The most interesting thing in the room

As a high school teacher, I spent the past several months in a series of professional development sessions built around a close reading of “The Anxious Generation,” a book about what it means to grow up in a world that fits in your pocket. Not a one-day training. Months. The same group of teachers coming back to it, comparing what we are seeing in real time, across different classrooms, different subjects, same patterns. We read it the slow way.…