Veteran teacher Julie Landsman leads the reader through a day of teaching and reflection about her work with high school students who are from a variety of cultures. She speaks honestly about issues of race, poverty, institutional responsibility, and white privilege by engaging the reader in the experiences of a day in the classroom with some of her remarkable students.

A series of reflections, spanning a full day of teaching and communicating with students, discuss poverty, race, white privilege, and institutional responsibility.