Educators in a range of schools share tools and strategies for successfully working with youth who have become marginalized from school or are at risk of dropping out. The educators emphasize the importance of personally connecting with their students and nurturing the teenagers' interests. They also discuss the challenges of trying to establish relationships of trust with teenagers who have learned to expect mistreatment and injustice from adults. Schools should work with students, not just on academics but on other issues as well, taking into account their students' individual, family, and social contexts. For students to thrive, teachers must take every opportunity to single out a student for positive attention and feedback and hold all students accountable for their learning and their lives.