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Middle-school teacher sets boundaries with love

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By Eliza Gray
| The Washington Post Verified
Middle-school teacher sets boundaries with love (washingtonpost.com) Middle-school teacher sets boundaries with love By Eliza Gray 2025042210000000 It was the afternoon before a long weekend, and Kimberly Poole, 52, was steering her sixth-graders to class after a school evacuation. Everything was fine; it was a faulty fuse, but the disruption amplified the already buzzy atmosphere at J. Lupton Simpson Middle School in Leesburg, Virginia, where Poole is in her 30th year of teaching.
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Miriam Schimmoller is The Washington Post’s 2025 Teacher of the Year

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By Eliza Gray
| The Washington Post Verified
Miriam Schimmoller is The Washington Post’s 2025 Teacher of the Year (washingtonpost.com) Miriam Schimmoller is The Washington Post’s 2025 Teacher of the Year By Eliza Gray 2025042210000000 The world was in chaos on a morning in April, but inside Miriam Schimmoller's third-grade classroom at Oak Street Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia, the atmosphere was zen.
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Principal empowers students and teachers to fix mistakes without shame

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By Eliza Gray
| The Washington Post Verified
Last year, the second-grade teachers at Takoma Park Elementary School in Takoma Park, Md., were struggling to manage their classrooms. Their students had spent kindergarten at home during the pandemic and were lacking basic school skills. “They wanted to go to the bathroom on their own without asking. They wanted snacks when they wanted them. They were talkative. It was more difficult for them to follow directions,” said second-grade teacher Deborah Roberts-Harris.
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