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words of psychologist Brian Little,

they’re “engaged in occupations, roles

or settings that are concordant with

their personalities.” The inverse is also

true: kids stop learning when they feel

emotionally threatened.

No one knows this better than

LouAnne Johnson, a tough-talking

former marine and schoolteacher

widely recognized for educating some

of the most troubled teens in the California

public school system (Michelle

Pfeiffer played her in the movie Dangerous

Minds). I visited Johnson at her

home in Truth or Consequences, New

Mexico, to find out more about her experience

teaching children of all stripes.

Johnson happens to be skilled at

working with very shy children—which

is no accident. One of her techniques is

to share with her students how timid

she herself used to be. Her earliest

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