Kathleen Campbell teaches at STRIVE Prep—Kepner, a turnaround school in Southwest Denver. She was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Kathleen is a Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellowship alum. Student names in this piece have been changed to protect privacy.
Nick Didn’t Need Another Suspension. He Needed to Know I Loved and Believed in Him.
Nick was a sixth-grader who, before joining my classroom, had been suspended from several of his previous schools. He is easy to pick out in a class of 30 students not because he is Hispanic, but...
