Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Rachel Hobbs LeCure

Rachel (Hobbs) LeCure is a 8th grade English teacher at Esperanza Middle School in Philadelphia. She graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA with a B.A. in Anthropology and received an MA in Education from Chestnut Hill Colllege. She was an instructor in the Powerful Voices for Kids program at the Russell Byers Charter School.