| Dear educators,
Wow, you were on fire in 2023! We tallied over 11 million of you engaging each month on our channels, adding your insights in the comments hundreds of thousands of times. You shared our stories with 600,000 fellow educators and saved our resources for future reference more than half a million times.
To close out the year and honor the important contributions you make to the Edutopia community, we examined the ideas, practices, and opinions that you praised, discussed, and critiqued, and rounded up the stories and quotes you shared with colleagues thousands—or even millions—of times over because they resonated with you.
Among the recurring themes we tracked: Beating the drum on relationships doesn’t address deeper systemic problems, pens and pencils should still play a role in classrooms (even with the ascendance of generative AI), and cell phones in class are disastrous. Take a look at our roundup, and please let us know what you think in the comments. | 
