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The article focuses on challenges teachers face in helping students not setting goals can help improve instruction and schools might defer to SMART goals or other frameworks borrowed from the corporate world or higher education. It mentions professional learning systems should proactively address the challenges that students and teachers need to overcome. It also mentions need to build a culture of problem-solving, consider a learning cycle that embeds the following skills.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of teaching a group of high school seniors about the novel "Americanah," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.