by Diane Mierzwik. Harold sits at the same computer station he occupies every day. He works quietly on decimals, stroking his long white beard before writing calculations on the scratch paper then clicking on what he hopes is the correct answer. Beside him is a decrepit four wheel jumbo folding shopping cart used primarily by immigrant and elderly women walking home with … [Read more...] about Occupying Hope.
Diane Mierzwik.
Fragile Birds: Incarceration and Poverty.
by Diane Mierzwik.LeRoy has been meeting with me every Tuesday for the last two months. We read out loud together to increase his reading fluency as part of the program’s implementation of new Evidence-Based Reading Instruction. We stop often so I can explain things like how when there is a period at the end of the sentence, he should pause, and other “rules” … [Read more...] about Fragile Birds: Incarceration and Poverty.