Unexpected Outcomes

Sally Greene has a very moving post up at GreeneSpace about a presentation she heard at a homelessness conference. Here is an excerpt:

… To an audience largely of public school teachers she talked about how disappointing, even destructive, her school experiences were. Highly transient, moving from tent to foster care and back (even once living on a boat), she wasn’t in one place long enough for her teachers to understand her.”The gaps in my education became so noticeable that most educators were at a loss and so did nothing with me.” In turn, “The more they treated me like I wasn’t capable, the more I believed it.”

And so today, as a teacher herself, 2002 Teacher of the Year in Virginia Beach, she is on a mission to educate the educators:”Often the most unreachable adults are the ones who have lost hope and confidence. Just one or two well-placed words will inspire and empower.”…

Read the whole thing here. You’ll be glad you did.