Mornings before school can easily turn into an exhausting cycle of repeating the same instructions: brush your teeth, put on your shoes, eat your breakfast. When you are the only one nudging things forward, resistance builds, and the start of the day can feel heavy before anyone even walks out the door.

To kick off the new school year and highlight New York State’s historic expansion of free Pre-K seats across more than 400 school districts, Governor Kathy Hochul visited our classroom in person.

When the room feels stiff and everyone is nervous, the last thing anyone wants is the dreaded "let’s go around the circle and share an interesting fact about yourself." Instant stage fright. That’s why across our programs, we ditch the high-pressure questions and lean into something way more fun, a little ridiculous, and shockingly effective: "Would You Rather?"