Student Voices: Bastille Day, or Why We Need Books More Than Ever in Our Students’ Lives

Linda Rief crafts this column, writing alongside her middle school students, to show the beauty and possibilities that lie within the words our students use to make sense of their world. In this issue, she discusses books and stories of everyday heroes that teachers can share with students to help them “understand, forgive, and reimagine the world, even in the worst of its behavior.”