What a Vermont Teacher’s Stories Can Teach Us About Education, Resilience and Second Chances
Every school has a teacher whose name comes up at reunions long after the textbooks are forgotten. That teacher is rarely remembered for a perfect lesson plan. Students remember the way he laughed at his own mistakes, the way he stood at the finish line of a cross-country race, and the way he noticed something in them before they noticed it themselves.
John Kerrigan was that kind of teacher....