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The Teacher Who Changed Everything
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Struggling With a World of Numbers
By James Kences
When I began to experience serious problems with math, I was removed from the gifted class and placed in a lower level. From that point on my father was determined that I become proficient in arithmetic. Unfortunately, his efforts failed…
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- Persistence, by Michael Tomich
- Robert Rauschenberg, by Robert Rauschenberg
- Running Though School, by A. Wayne McFarlane
- She doesn’t believe she can succeed., by Bruce Saddler
- Struggling With a World of Numbers, by James Kences
- Tear it!, by Joshua Maiche
- The BIG Court Case, by James Alexander Brody
- The Blackest Blackbird, by Linda Hyatt
- The Diary of a Family with Dyslexia, by Dorothy Tod
- The Dyslexic Writer, by Christopher Lee
- The Good Kid, by Kelly Huentelman
- The Handicap That Had No Name, by Dale S. Brown
- The Invisible Woman, by Crystal Cheryl Bell
- The Journey Begins, by R. Cary Westbrook
- The Joy of Defeat, by Tim Whiteford
- The Learning Brook: Lighting the Way for Others, by Mary Beth Castell
- The light at the end of the tunnel is right before your eyes, by Janet Williamson
- The Poet, by Kim Smith
- The Potential Mind: Beyond LD, by Deborah Roscoe
- The Principal and the Professor: A Story for Our Time, by Douglas Fuchs
- The Story of My Son, by Maureen Penton
- The Teacher Who Changed Everything, by Patricia Polacco
- The Wonderful Gift, by Sandy Gauvin
- This Is the Song That Doesn’t End, by Crystal Cheryl Bell
- Through a Glass Darkly: Creating my own place in the world, by Madeline Harcourt
- Turning "My" Students into "Our" Students, by Jenifer Randle
- Turning Differences Into Advantages, by Donald A. Winkler
- Turning Frustration into Triumph, by Michelle Lintner
- Upside down in a right sided world, by W. Sumner Davis, Ph.D.
- Veronica Thompson, by Veronica Thompson
