Courtesy: Mark Gozonsky A wall in Mark Gozonsky's classroom displays some of the books his students read and their analysis of those works. Courtesy: Mark Gozonsky A wall in Mark Gozonsky's classroom displays some of the books his students read and their analysis of those works. Mark Gozonsky My 11th and 12th graders did not do “learning loss.” Instead, according to our district-mandated reading assessment, we started in August 2020 at an average LEXILE-based reading level of 10.0 and finished in June 2021 at level 12.4. I asked my students what they thought accounted for this trend-bucking improvement, and they basically said: shrug. Students don’t really like it when you ask them about teaching. That’s your job, they are too polite to come right out and say. But I do think someone should say something about how we managed to defy the odds, so let me share what I think is replicable and scalable about our success.