What I feel like meeting a student in the middle means is assessing where a student is in their personal situation and most importantly their academic situation. The reason why I feel like it is important to assess their personal situation is because you may not know what their home life is like and that could make school seem like it is not important to them because they see themselves ending up like their parents and I saw this alot at my school. I need to understand how they feel about school to hopefully change their perspective to a positive one. If they do have a stable home life and are successful I need to push them to become better.  One thing my dad always said was if you have the grades you can do anything you want; if that’s going to college or going into the trades. Next is gonna be how they perform academically i need to know where their at to see how much they know to help them either catch up to the adequate level they need to be at or if they are performing at a high level already I need to help them learn more and not get dragged down by other students who aren’t quite there yet. Overall I just need to meet my students where they are at to either help them get caught up or to push them so they become better then when they came into the classroom.