One ingenious Rochester Prep teacher, Jaimie Brillante, began with a diversion: she gave the whole class a quick, silent task: “Copy it down, please.” Then, with the students’ faces pointed to their papers, she walked casually in the direction of a girl on the right who hadn’t been paying attention. But instead of marching straight over to her, she meandered, picking up two tissues from the classroom Kleenex box, dropping them warmly on the desk of a girl in her path, and peering curiously over the shoulder of another girl. When she took a few more steps over to the one who was her real
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