By Elena Aguilar, Teacher Magazine, July 14, 2010

"You can’t teach someone you don’t know," said the respected educator, Ted Sizer. After 15 years of teaching and coaching teachers in Oakland, Calif., this rings so loud and true it almost silences everything else I’ve ever learned about teaching.

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