I love making choices about the perfect fall sweater to wear when the weather gets cold or which book on my TBR list I will pick up next. There is something absolutely delightful about having choices. At least until they leave you in a stupor unable to function... Like a family trying to decide where to go to dinner among the myriad restaurants available to them, too many choices can be a nightmare. It turns out that years of research have proven the difficulty of operating in an environment with too much choice. More choices rarely mean more freedom to choose appropriately. As I work in classrooms with adolescents and adults daily, this research has weighed on me. It is estimated that teachers make 1500 choices a day when considering instruction, curriculum, and the social-emotional needs of their students. That would create fatigue in even the most developed minds. When we consider the decisions our students are asked to make each day, the added layer of underdevel...