We are eight posts into this series! What a wild ride it has been! Eight posts, somewhere north of twenty thinking routines. A Costco parking lot, a Tonic deep cut, This Old House, a soup can, and one very passionate argument about the Oxford comma. We have covered routines that teach students to observe carefully, argue honestly, find their words, push past their first thought, sit in complexity, see before they interpret, and document how far their thinking has traveled. An