Today, I gave a book to a student who will likely be transferred to the alternative school. I can count the number of times this students has voluntarily done work in my class on one hand, but he was reading a book of mine in class and expressed disappointment that he wouldn't be able to come back and keep reading it if he got transferred. I told him he could keep it. He carried around with him all day. He came to school with no bookbag, no books, no pencil, but he carried around a copy of Monster by Walter Dean Myers to each of his classes and to a pep rally and to the bus.
So far, this is one of my greatest successes as a teacher.
This makes me incredibly happy.
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