Three teachers answer questions submitted by Slate readers, including "What is the best and worst advice you were given as a new teacher?" Hosted by Matt Collette of the Teacher Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Today's teachers:
- Valerie Lake, an 8th grade English teacher and literacy coach at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School in New York.
- José Vilson, an 8th grade math teacher in New York's Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood. He's also the author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and the Future of Education. He blogs at
thejosevilson.com.
- Jeanna Chavetta, a 7th grade Spanish, language arts, and social studies teacher at Buena Vista Horace Mann School in San Francisco.
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