Classroom teacher Dena Simmons demonstrates the power of high expectations and love for students.
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Dena Simmons shares with her listeners her life experiences, growing up in the Bronx and then returning as a classroom teacher, where she re-encounters, through her students, the many violences she experienced as a child. Through telling the story of her response when a student threatens her with a pair of scissors, she demonstrates the power of high expectations and love for students, and challenges listeners to address not only the educational disparities in our country, but also the most foundational disparity of all: whether or not a kid feels safe.
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