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Lessons Learned

Many years ago, a teacher colleague told me, “School is the worst place to try to learn something.” Her words rang true for me throughout TFD. School is typically the first place that most children encounter failure. Students’ success at home and in the community rarely reflects itself in school tasks. By placing our TFD students in community-based programs (for example

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