This life story connects low expectations for patients in nursing homes to the low expectations for students in many schools - while urging us to do better.

Equity: Story 12 - Being Known

Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman contains some wonderfully personal stories from the author's own lived experience as a devoted family member, friend, and educator. In this series, Regie narrates each of these stories and, in doing so, invites us to reflect on our lives as readers, writers, educators and parents.