‘Help Me Succeed’: Ensuring educators support all students

‘Help Me Succeed’: Ensuring educators support all students

(Getty Images)As I moved through my 7th-grade classroom during a personalized-learning practice known as academic laps, I noticed Korey standing over the trash can. He was tearing a sheet of paper into small pieces and dropping them in, which distracted students near him working on an essay about the Louisiana Purchase. Approaching him quietly, I asked why he was out of his seat. “I just can’t sit still at my desk,” he admitted. Korey has attent…