Michael Stivers was a kindergarten teacher in a school of children with very few behavior problems. Then he lost most of the use of his left arm. He could not drive to his school without fear of an accident, so he searched for a neighboring school.

The school he found was close to his home. The number of challenging students was much greater. To meet those challenges, Michael would have to draw on his decades of teaching elementary, preschool, and special education students.