There was a desk in the back corner of my classroom. It wasn't special. It wasn't labeled. It didn't look different from the others. But it was almost always empty. Some days it was empty because a student was absent. Some days it was empty because a student had shut down. Some days it was empty because the lesson, the pacing, the structure, or something, wasn't working for them. And every time I saw that empty desk, I felt it. I became a teacher because I love learning. I lo