One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.
One elementary teacher explains how she uses closing circles to create a safe, reflective space for students to discuss their days with their classmates and leave school knowing that others care.
In this lesson, students will examine the cliques within their school community. They will also explore ways to integrate the student body and form relationships across, and in spite of, controlling cliques.
Richard L. Copley took this photograph in 1968 at the Memphis sanitation workers' strike -- the reason Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis on the day he was killed.