Educators from teachers to supervisors had no shortage of comments and suggestions for items to include in the state’s response to Every Student Succeeds Act at a regional meeting Monday night at Piedmont College in Demorest. Topics ranged from how to best prepare beginning teachers to how to change the College and Career Ready Performance Index to flexibility for teachers to using physical exercise to stimulate mental gymnastics. About 70 people attended the second of eight sessions around the state to offer comments and ideas for the state’s response to ESSA — the re-authorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.