The room went quiet when Armida Espinoza finished reading from “Brave Lolis Learns English”to a group of teachers in Madera County.
“Would anyone like to share a time they felt like Lolis?” she asked.
At first, no one raised their hand. Then a teacher spoke up, a little teary eyed, she remembered the day her younger brother was brought into her fourth-grade class to help her with math. She recalled the embarrassment that she felt having all her peers see and this memory stayed with her for decades later…