Monthly Archives: August 2013

Remembering important teachers, part 4

This post is from Elena Juris, the Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health Training Center and the author of Positive Options for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. And hooray for New Orleans! Ms. Landry was my 7th grade English teacher, … Continue reading

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Remembering important teachers, part 3: Ms. Fair

Emily Auerswald and Steve Soden, siblings who are six years apart, were both fortunate to attend Friends Academy in Dartmouth, MA in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They fondly remember a legendary history teacher, Ms. Fair. Emily: One of … Continue reading

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Remembering important teachers, part 2: It’s all about the food!

Here are recollections about important teachers from my friend Isabel McLean, who’s a lead instructional coach at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. See Isabel’s blog here. As the new school year begins, it seems the right time to reflect … Continue reading

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Remembering important teachers, part 1

As a sort of end-of-summer, getting-ready-for-school series, I asked friends to tell me about a teacher that they had sometime during their K-12 tenure that made a positive impression on them – an impression that’s lasted, for whatever reason. Here’s … Continue reading

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