Gary Bigelow: Time to help every student succeed

As a teacher, I spend the last week of July cramming for my biggest test of the year: the first day of school. When students walk through my door for the first time, they will make judgments about me and what I have to offer that will have enormous consequences for what we can accomplish together during the next nine months.Although the young are more forgiving in their judgments, those initial impressions are powerful and lasting. That is why I spend the last days of July with a yearbook consta