I'm thinking about those students I've really connected to, especially those who need us the most. It's the kids who are affected the most.

This was a key match for us because the kids need to realize that this is a team, that they can still play and that we have more than one or two key players who can control the game.

Twenty-five thousand of the neediest students don't receive state aid. What we would like to see is that state grants are transparent for students so they can do their financial planning for college, and it can be transferred between institutions and that they are given to the neediest students.

Basically she died in front of her students.

I tell them I'm not. As long as I'm effective and the students consider me effective, I'm going to continue teaching. As long as a school bus comes riding by, I'll be willing to jump on it.

You have to do it student by student. There is no cookie-cutter way of working with these students. The trick is understanding what a student's specific needs are at any point in time.