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Heading Back to the Classroom
This article is part of an ongoing Catalyst Chicago series that will follow minority teacher candidates through their student teaching experience, job hunt and first year in the classroom. Of the two Grow Your Own Teachers candidates Catalyst Chicago profiled earlier this year, just one is headed to the classroom. A research report released this [...]
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From Security Guard to Teacher
This article is part of an ongoing Catalyst Chicago series that will follow minority teacher candidates through their student teaching experience, job hunt and first year in the classroom. Michael Vargas held down three jobs while he studied to become a teacher through the Grow Your Own program, an initiative that aims to create a [...]
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Dual Language for All Students
As her 7th-grade students bury their noses in the book “Parrot in the Oven,” teacher Elizabeth Carrillo asks a comprehension question that is written in two languages on an overhead projector. Carrillo, who’s teaching a lesson on inferences, has written the definition of a word on the overhead, with a formula—in English and Spanish—for drawing [...]
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