Adequate Yearly Progress

by Roxanna Elden

She wanted them to understand that stories didn’t just happen; they happened in a time and place inseparable from the way the action unfolded.

her students needed to read things that made them question the world around them.

She could finally stop making her students work for the curriculum and start making the curriculum work for them.

A presenter from the district stood on the stage, grinning at no one in particular. She was one of those heavily accessorized, well-connected former teachers who had long ago retreated to offices within the district headquarters, emerging at the beginning of each school year to give PowerPoint presentations.

Hernan was glad he’d remembered to write the newest thing-to-write-on-the-board of the day.

Students who learned coolness as a second language never quite lost their accents.

The lack of regulations applying to charter schools allowed them to cut costs and keep the difference.

Watching one of her favorite activities become an instrument of torture made Lena’s soul feel . . . threadbare.