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Teacher stories, interviews, and videos related to the importance of teacher community.
Emanuel Harper | My life’s ambition to be a teacher
In the back of my head, I think I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be a teacher. It was mostly about finding the right subject matter that got me super excited about teaching. I remember…
Michael Palermo | Why civic education matters now more than ever
My mom was an elementary school teacher, but I had no interest in teaching when I was growing up. I told everybody that I was going to be President of the United States, and that was my plan from when…
Raphael Bonhomme | Teacher collaboration and how “iron sharpens iron”
It wasn't my original plan to become a teacher. At first, I didn't know if I was gonna go to college or not, but I ended up getting accepted into three schools. I wanted to do advertising. I was being…
Hannah Halpern | Navigating the DC Public Schools system
I pretty much always knew I wanted to work with kids because I always found joy in it. I felt I had innate instincts, and I knew how to navigate different situations. When I was seven or eight years old,…
Alexandra Mondelus-Duffy | Middle school math and Haitian-American community
I never thought of becoming a teacher. Early on, I wanted to be a pediatrician, but I was more interested in studying mental health and behavior vs. other sciences, so I thought, ‘Psychology would work.’ I thought it was a…
Teacher Appreciation Week | Edutopia
Throughout Teacher Appreciation Week, Edutopia highlighted four teachers' stories from Teachers in Their Power.
Khalid Birdsong | “You can leave education and come back into it”
At first, I didn't want to be a teacher. I come from teachers. My mother's a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher — on my mother's side, there are teachers all the way back to slavery. I grew up in…
Brown Deer High School | 3 art teachers share their stories
Three art teachers from Brown Deer High School in Brown Deer, Wisconsin share their perspectives on teaching and learning.
Kritika Srinivasan | Behavior and bearded dragons
My mom came to the U.S. from India. She got a scholarship to do her PhD in French at UCLA, and then she adopted me from India when I was six months old. It was a huge family occasion —…