I spend a lot of time working with high-school students in different settings.
This is an article I came across a few months ago which I found gave me some interesting perspective. A teacher shadows two students each for a day and shares the lessons she learned from the other side of the classroom. She also wrote a follow-up post. Links to both below.
Enjoy
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A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days - a sobering lesson learned
A PS to the guest post on shadowing HS students (and the author revealed)