We believe that students can learn more from each other than they can from their teachers. As educators, we are their guides, not the gatekeepers of knowledge who reward passive listening and rote repetition. When students, especially those in middle and high school, are given opportunities to work together, speak to each other, explore independently in pairs or small groups, express ideas and choose their own paths of learning, they get excited to learn. To monitor how we’re doing as guides, we developed a rubric that helps us measure our effectiveness in stating clear objectives, allowing for student voice and exploratory hands-on learning, guiding student engagement through independent work, assisting students to make or recognize connections, implementing clear assessment of student learning, and articulating outcomes with the students.