She understands Sandra Westall tells her learning-disabled students that they can succeed. Her own life supports that claim. Sandra Westall's classroom looks like a lot of other Pinellas County elementary school classrooms. Bookcases are jammed full of books.
Plastic tubs overflow with art supplies.
Bulletin boards are peppered with colorful items, including a list of classroom rules and a class mission statement. Posters of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. flank the back wall. But that doesn't mean they won't grow up to be somebody. She found out she was dyslexic at age 27. Ten years later, she was diagnosed with audio and visual reception problems.