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The middle years

The long middle, where so much is quietly decided.

Language American Sign Language is a language here, not an accommodation.
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窓ぎわのトットちゃん Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

The true story of a small girl who did not fit an ordinary school, and the headmaster who built one that fit her — a train-car classroom where a child was met as she actually was.

Why it belongs It is the free edge as a school: read the grain of the child before deciding what she can hold. The card leads in Japanese because the display order is itself a statement about whose language leads.

  • Attention and wonder
  • Difference honored
  • The table and the gathering

In Japanese, English, Vietnamese, Spanish audiobook

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Cover: A painterly illustration of a girl in a red dress looking out through a train-car window.

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