This is a story about English language learners - one in particular - and a reflection on what we, as educators, can do to promote their success. As educators, we're faced every day with the question of how to teach the thousands - many thousands - of children who arrive in our schools as immigrants and refugees, coming with no English, from cultural backgrounds so different from America's, often from impoverished households and often from households where education of the kind we know was completely absent. Our work as educators is to help these children start to climb the wall that...