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Can Teachers Be Friends With Students? - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Can Teachers Be Friends With Students? - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher:

Can Teachers Be Friends With Students?

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This week's question comes from Brad Patterson, who asks:

Can we be friends with our students? Where do we create barriers? How about social-media wise? I'm interested to hear about your experience, lessons learned, regrets, what you would offer as advice for new teachers.

It's an important question with two key components. One relates to the question of how teachers and students view their relationships with each other on a