Keep on trying. I like the Little Red Hen, too, Kelly. Do you have a problem. I will wear overalls and a straw hat. Everybody has problems, Kelly.
Some problems are big and some are small.
One of my small problems is I can't stop eating chocolate when I see it. Incorporating dialogue journals into a teacher's daily schedule does take time, but that time is also useful for planning the next day's lessons, based in part on the information the dialogue journals provide. Teachers find that they enjoy responding in the journals and look forward to this time. A second major benefit for teachers is that the dialogue journals seem to improve classroom management and discipline. The journals are a long-range technique for helping individual students learn how to manage their own actions.