Afterward, she sat in the shade on the school steps for a breather.
Adrian Mitchell, 16, first experienced Ms. Kirkland's teaching at the dance school Steps on Broadway.
On the school steps a little brother in a denim jacket played with an action figure.
At Katwe, the school steps in for parents and buys pads for the pupils.
Maria Tabbakh, whose grandson, Ali, 9, attends the school, slumped on the school steps and wept after hearing that the school would close.
It was on the school steps, on the window ledges, on the low concrete fence, on the lilac bushes by the fence.
In later years he taught at two Manhattan dance schools, Steps on Broadway and the Broadway Dance Center, and was a guest teacher in cities around the world.
As Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine, notes, the harassment didn't stop at the school steps, and trying to get an education at Central High was a struggle.
While leaders struggle to find a political solution to the crisis, the best hope for Syria's future is right here, waiting on the school steps.
This morning, Beers students paid tribute to the seven astronauts in a ceremony on the school steps, with some singing and the release of seven helium-filled balloons.
And if the huaraches materialize, the only things left to look for will be space to eat on the school steps and a vendor selling hammocks for afterward.
