https://padlet.com/shusterg/3pns9db4mlhk Made with swagger en-us 2017-02-07 04:12:30 UTC 2017-02-07 04:21:33 UTC hello@padlet.com shusterg https://padlet.com/shusterg/3pns9db4mlhk/wish/152030787 Lynda Mullaly Hunt's wrote this, And then I met Mr. Christy, my sixth grade teacher. He smiled when I walked into the room. He set high expectations and then ensured my success. He lifted me from one life path and set me on another. He changed the trajectory of my life by changing my perception of myself. He did this by focusing on the child rather than the student—and the student flourished. Regretfully, I didn’t have the words to thank him at the end of the year; I think eleven-year-old me was overwhelmed. Even though he has now passed away, I hope he knows that I’ve finally written him that thank you note. It’s 288 pages long and entitled, FISH IN A TREE.

Having been a quiet, disheveled student whose standardized test scores said I was illiterate I showed up to sixth grade expecting to fail. Again. I had been in the lowest reading group since first grade and spent a lot of time looking around the room and wondering why I couldn’t do the things the other kids could do. I had begun to wonder what would become of me.   ]]> 2017-02-07 04:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shusterg/3pns9db4mlhk/wish/152030787