"What did I miss?" asked Talia, one of my fifth-grade students. What started as two or three absences a month had escalated into two or three a week. When Talia returned, she was often too busy trying to make sense of her missing work to focus on the current lesson.
In my middle school reading class, Devon introduced himself and asked about the class’s subject. When I said, “Reading and writing,” he promptly said he wasn’t interested, vowing not to
My freshman class read a short story recently that contained a quote from dystopian author Ray Bradbury: "You don t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
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Early on in my teaching career, our school went on lockdown. This was not a drill. One of the most surreal moments was when a kindergartner pulled scissors from his pocket and said, "Don t worry, teacha, I got you."