The group's help will be all the more needed in September, when she may no longer be able to pay for some programs and staff with school resources, like part-time math and literacy coaches to help her teachers prepare their lessons, and a free after-school test-preparation course for fourth graders.
When the young girl asked her teacher to help her find a group, the teacher walked her over to a cluster of the class' most popular girls and announced apologetically, "I'm sorry, girls.
When she was just five-years-old Elan wanted to help her friends and teachers understand her cerebral palsy.
When she finally did, they did not support her access to care, leaving the student to depend of her relationship with her teacher to help her access care.
Yale University microbiologist Jo Handelsman has spent 2 decades trying to help her colleagues become better teachers, and in 2011 she won a presidential mentoring award.
IN the early 1950's Lee Krasner, not yet famous but already a promising Abstract Expressionist painter, asked Hans Hofmann, her former teacher, to help her land a gallery show.
Her competing in the American Legion's lucrative annual competition was a scheme cooked up by her parents, a high-school debate coach and a high-school history teacher, to help her gain confidence and tuition money at once.
The school district assigned her a homebound teacher to help her stay on track with her studies.
Perhaps she can get some after-school tutoring with her math teacher to help her catch up.
It took time, she said, and help from veteran teachers to help her learn how to maintain order and create a learning environment.
