Laura Roberts, an English teacher at Janesville Consolidated School, instructs her sports literature class to high school students with great joy.
For starters, she herself loves sports. So teaching about it feels more like an indulgence in her hobby and an opportunity to share her passion with her students rather than a pedagogical challenge to focus on current events.
Without a doubt, Ms. Roberts is an engaging teacher. But on Friday, she and the class set a record of engagement when they catapulted themselves into the national spotlight following a class discussion.
A hot-off-the-press story about a high school class in Indianapolis getting out of a U.