When a student comes flying into the classroom with his arms outstretched, gyrates like a dust devil down onto his seat, and then looks back at the teacher, the way a child who’s just cleaned his room to be able to sleep over at a friend’s house, looks all doughy-eyed for approval from his mother,…
Morning with Robin
On this walk into school this morning there’s a robin standing on a NO PARKING sign, and it’s trying to be a dancing orangutan as it shimmies left and right along the metal top of it, presumably to tell me it’s got a problem with my being here. It leans forward and cocks its head…
The Unruly
I put my finger across my lips and walked around the classroom to quietly signal to the kids that they needed to be quiet for the lead teacher, who’d been trying to give a lesson for the last 20 minutes. I sat at the back of the room where I could keep an eye on…
Chris Russell 
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