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Happy Friday, Reader Ask a group of middle leaders what good feedback sounds like and you'll have a decent answer in about ten seconds. Describe the work rather than the person. Say what you saw. Then ask one of them to say it out loud to you, as if you were the teacher whose marking has slipped for three weeks and who has a lot on at home. Almost every time, there's a pause. Then an opening line that begins "I just wanted to check in about..." and never quite arrives anywhere. For a long...