Another teacher, he said, became "really defensive" and started snapping at students.

During the late 1990s, teachers and students started to become sick as a result of poor air quality.

By the end of the period, once all the boys had stopped paying attention, then the teacher started talking to the girls.

They require teachers to start test preparation months in advance.

So should writing teachers start by helping students to find their voice?

One teacher started by asking her class what caught their attention first.

The second day, teachers started to get a sense of their charges, even as more trickled in.

The teachers start to see the students in a different light.

This is the second school year in a row that the teachers have started work without a new contract.

Once word got around, they feared, teachers and coaches would start writing the girls off.