Caroline Sweet is a dual-language instructional coach at an elementary school in Austin, Texas. During her 20 years in public education, Caroline has focused on serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations and fostering reading and writing classrooms that encourage all students to share their stories.
She didn’t need to say it. You can tell just by looking at her face, her posture. “It’s been a rough day.” “I know.” And you follow her to her classroom, where the two of you sit at the kidney table—the same table where she’s guided students through...