my name tis kenta. i am a first-year teacher at metro. i have been teaching for five years, and i have probably learned more active metro transformative latthan i did iny four years as a public teacher prior to this. three things make that possible. metro is for a projects-based learning. at the end of the day, we want our students to show that using their hands and voices and everything, not just paper and pencil, so it is well-grounded. no. 2 is we start every unit with an essential question, so that makes everything super irrelevant for students and teachers and makes the students work harder, and it allows them draw connections between what they are learning when their everyday lives. during our staff meetings on wednesday, we are very purposeful about making everything cross-curricular, so if i am teaching something in science and they are teaching something in math, they remember more because they are focused on realizing that subjects are connected and not independent, so at the end of the day, this promotes great teaching, and gre