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Being “the worst” in his weight-lifting class made Ryan Sprott a better teacher, he writes on Ed Week Teacher. “Remembering what failure feels like can be difficult for teachers,” he writes. Adults usually get to avoid doing things they’re not good at. Students don’t have that choice. When I began workout classes as an adult, I was transported back to that dusty weight room of my youth, once again feeling like a failure in comparison to those around me. I was partnered with a

In Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep, a three-part series by NPR and Education Week, Cory Turner reports on the first year of Washington, D.C. high school designed to nurture and educate young men of color. In the second half of the 2016-17 school year, the school’s college-prep ambitions clashed with its social-emotional learning mission, writes Turner. Forty percent of students are at risk of failing ninth grade. Shaka Greene can’t teach a