From the Ted Talk by Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I walked in angry, a little nrueovs — (laghtuer) — but I was determined to set the tone for my new students. I started listing as forcefully as I could my expectations for their behavior and my expectations for what they would learn in school. When, all of a sudden, a girl way in the back of the auditorium, she stood up and she said, "Miss! Miss!" When our eyes lcoked, she said, "Why do you keep calling this a school? This is not a school."
In one outburst, Ashley had expressed what I felt and never quite was able to articulate about my own eerxicepne when I attended a low-performing school in the same nhhoeiroogbd, many, many, many years earlier. That school was definitely not a sochol.
Open Cloze
I walked in angry, a little _______ — (________) — but I was determined to set the tone for my new students. I started listing as forcefully as I could my expectations for their behavior and my expectations for what they would learn in school. When, all of a sudden, a girl way in the back of the auditorium, she stood up and she said, "Miss! Miss!" When our eyes ______, she said, "Why do you keep calling this a school? This is not a school."
In one outburst, Ashley had expressed what I felt and never quite was able to articulate about my own __________ when I attended a low-performing school in the same ____________, many, many, many years earlier. That school was definitely not a ______.
Solution
school
nervous
laughter
locked
experience
neighborhood
Original Text
I walked in angry, a little nervous — (Laughter) — but I was determined to set the tone for my new students. I started listing as forcefully as I could my expectations for their behavior and my expectations for what they would learn in school. When, all of a sudden, a girl way in the back of the auditorium, she stood up and she said, "Miss! Miss!" When our eyes locked, she said, "Why do you keep calling this a school? This is not a school."
In one outburst, Ashley had expressed what I felt and never quite was able to articulate about my own experience when I attended a low-performing school in the same neighborhood, many, many, many years earlier. That school was definitely not a school.