1. The learning is ultimately yours.
  2. I have a plan for what you will learn, but I invite you to share other ideas, questions, and resources.
  3. It is ok if your learning takes you in more directions than I have listed in the learning outcomes.
  4. Failure is an important part of learning. What you do after any failure is critical to your learning journey.
  5. Every class is diverse and brings a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. These matter. 
  6. I have carefully selected materials that I believe will help you learn. I know that you will learn. The meaning, direction, magnitude, use of that learning, however, will emerge in ways that resist our ability to predict.
  7. I care deeply about fostering the best opportunities I can for you to learn for yourselves.
  8. I am still learning and I learn from my students in every class that I teach.
  9. Education is more than the transfer of information.
  10. I believe in students. I trust you and hope that you will trust me.