Category: Teachers

“'I'm curious how I could have reached out to you better?'”

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Antero Garcia talks to his former student Roger Alvarez who dropped out during his senior year of high school. Read more…

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Recorded in Culver City, CA.

“If just one of them gets through, they may save us all.”

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John Hunter talks with two former students about what they learned playing the World Peace Game, which he created. Read more…

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Recorded in Charlottesville, VA.

“In my old school, I never went to class.”

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Meliza Arellano tells Sarah Benko, her former seventh-grade teacher, about how she became a serious student.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“At the time, I was tutoring at an after-school program...”

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Ayodeji Ogunniyi remembers how the murder of his father led him to a new career. Read more…

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Recorded in Chicago, IL.

“He said, 'You make sure you call that teacher.'”

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Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years. Read more…

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Recorded in Medford, NJ.

“I do the decorating, paperwork, whatever law enforcement's needed.”

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Warren Weems (R), who is a teacher's aide in his wife, Robin's, first-grade classroom, is interviewed by his son Jason (L).

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Recorded in Baltimore, MD.

“He never said anything good about my writing.”

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Author Walter Dean Myers talks about his father in an interview with his son Christopher Myers. Read more…

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Recorded in Brooklyn, NY.

“I wasn't like other kids.”

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Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago. Read more…

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Recorded in Madison, WI.

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