One example: When a college classmate learned that I was working at Covington, she insisted I connect with two of her friends who were black partners and sent an email to the three of us encouraging us to meet.
He started with a fish and then moved onto drawing the national flag of Pakistan, calling to the teacher, "Look at this!" Next to him, a classmate learned how to sharpen her pencil for the first time, while another small group of children built cars and trucks with the connecting blocks that also came as part of the School-in-a-Box.
Identifying resources on campus early Taking care of basic needs Developing a study plan and sticking with it Knowing your professors and classmates Learning the value of study groups Forming a new home and community Planning home visits, recreation, and "mental breaks" The central importance of persistence.
Sarah, a fifth grander, remembers watching her classmates learn to read and spell while she was left behind.
She and her classmates learned to belay — a climbing maneuver using ropes and anchors — and to summit a seven-story frozen waterfall and rappel back down.
When her school desegregated, her white classmates learned that anyone who tossed a racial epithet her way was liable to go home with bruises.
When some of his white classmates learned where he'd come from, they taunted him in the hallway, telling him he should have been deported, too.
He and his classmates learned Swahili.
What his classmates learned: Auron is even more special than they thought -- and very powerful too.
In class, Zakia and her classmates learn math, science, Urdu and English, among other subjects.
