Come join us on Tuesday, April 2nd, at noon for a Tuesday Together chat and learn with Paula McAvoy in Poe 120. She will discuss with us how to support productive classroom conversations. In particular, when teachers open up discussions of moral and political controversy in the classroom, it is common to believe that teachers should not use their position as the facilitator to steer the discussion toward a particular conclusion. If the question is genuinely “open,” advocates of this view reason, then students should be free to decide the issue for themselves. In this talk, we will reconsider the practice of steering discussions to ask: When (if ever) are teachers justified in steering discussions of moral and political controversy?