January 2011
Beginner
216 pages
5h 54m
English


When I was an assistant principal, we launched a life skills program. Every adult in the school worked with a small group of kids every morning for 15 to 20 minutes. In order to support the staff, I skimmed off all the most challenging kids so they wouldn’t negatively impact anyone else’s group interactions. I ended up with about 30 kids.
The only way I could get them to focus on their life skills lesson was to promise they could play a game show-style quiz the last half of the session. We divided the group into ...