What I hope students will remember most about me.

As a school counselor for first through fourth graders, I'm often asked to work with children who have discipline problems. I try to create a place where students feel they have someone they can trust. I hope they'll remember that there was one place in school where no one disciplined them, was impatient with them, or shouted at them; that they had a place where they could talk safely about anything.

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ARLYNE BERZAK

Paterson, New Jersey, with her frog friend who helps get kids talking

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