- Typically, what I talk to them about every time I meet with students, I meet with students pretty regularly.

Every month I have breakfast about 20 or 30 students and another lunch with another 20 or 30 students.

What I tell 'em is I don't necessarily have any agenda in mind.

I just want to get to know them and them to get to know me.

And in the process, common themes will emerge and I get a sense as to where I need to focus my efforts or my colleagues efforts.

And the questions I ask them are, how are things going?

What's going well?

And what could we do better?

And sometimes they come up with creative ideas that I pause and think like, wow, I didn't think about it.

That's a great suggestion.

We should do it.

Or sometimes I might come up with some suggestions and I tell 'em, let's think through a little bit.

What if we did this, this is how it could unroll and how would we deal with those?

And then you kind of walk them few steps and then they realize it's a lot more complicated than I thought.

And I said, yes, but no, that's the whole point of learning, right?

And so it cuts both ways.

So I get a chance to see what is in students' mind and how things are going operationally from their perspective and work on things that I can fix.

And some of them are easy fixes and some of them are longer term fixes.