Can Teachers Be Friends With Students? 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 broader level, and the other more narrowly in the social media realm . In fact, it's so important -- and it has so many nuances -- that I'll be devoting three separate posts responding to Brad's question. The bulk of this post will be a guest response from well known author-educator Rick Wormeli . On Friday, instead of posting the usual new "question of the week, teacher/author/blogger Jose Luis Vilson will share his guest response, I'll be sharing some of my own thoughts, and reader comments on the question will also be featured. ...