Teach Like a Star: A Story That Inspires Teachers to Captivate Their Students

Lucy Hernandez was an unlikely person to offer advice to elementary school teachers-let alone the principal. To most of the staff, she was just the "assembly performer"-someone who sang, joked, and operated a puppet for the students. What could someone in that role possibly offer a burned-out fourth-grade teacher like Whittaker Lee or a rookie first-grade teacher like Maya Williams? Even Principal Gleason, as he prepared to introduce Lucy at the morning assembly, wasn't sure she had what it...