Kyle Schwartz is a third-grade teacher at Denver's Doull Elementary School. In an effort to understand the lives of her students, allowing her to figure out how to best support them, she started a lesson plan called "I Wish My Teacher Knew."
Schwartz encouraged her students to participate in the activity by finishing sentences starting with "I wish my teacher knew." She let them write the notes anonymously to help the students open up more but Schwartz found that most are actually fine with including their name and even sharing what they wrote with the rest of the class.
"Some notes are heartbreaking ... I care deeply about each and every one of my students and I don't want any of them to have to suffer the consequences of living in poverty," she said.
