One year ago, as I made my way back to Colorado after another eventful summer teaching summer school at my alma mater in Hawaii, I was looking forward to another exciting year of third grade. For years people have echoed that year one was always a challenge for a first-year teacher, year two consisted of changing everything that didn’t work, and years three and on would simply be tweaking little things here and there. Little did I know that year four would bring a dynamic shift to our classroom and I could not have imagined how much of an impact it would have on our school year a mere nine months later.