....the emotional distress a child experiences when he has to leave a school where maybe for the first time in his life he felt like the staff cared...
...the moment when teachers converse about after work plans and one responds that they aren't the real social type and the eavesdropping kid says, "yeah, you just come to teach..."
...the moment when the journal topic is all about kids writing about themselves and a kid asks her teacher, "tell us about you..."
....the moment when a kid just wants to get away from the other kids for a second or two and asks to come back to the classroom at lunch and he is permitted to do so...
...the moment when a former student comes back and lets a former teacher know that he got in trouble at his new school defending that former teacher's honor and name...
...the moment when kids are running into the classroom to grab specific books to read during SSR...
...the moment when after reading silently for at least 15 minutes the teacher asks who'd like to keep going and 97% of the class raises their hands...
...the moment when a simple procedural change gets children even more excited about reading and discussion...
...the moment when a teacher goes "old school" and reads a book to the kids that their kindergarten teacher may have read and sees the excitement in those kids' eyes and the enthusiasm to lift the flaps that were on the pages of the book...
No, cameras and tests cannot adequately capture those moments...
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