OTHER STORIES

• Learning from fairy tales

  A teacher uses fairy tales to teach her students about their right to revise.

• Stuck in the ‘middle’ — and loving it

  Part of the reason why Robert Andruskiewicz and middle school is a match made in heaven is because he’s a “kid at heart.”

• Teacher follows her script

  Jennifer Grunin is in love with her job at Life Academy of Film and Music, a new small high school housed in Brooklyn’s Lafayette HS building.

• Re-made in Japan

  A group of Queens kids are really getting into the Japanese thing, even learning how to speak it and how to read its mysterious, beautiful alphabet, all in David Bantz’s classroom at East West HS of International Studies in Flushing.

• Taking the initiative

  When Anayah Barney began teaching her high school students about the history of American slavery, she knew she had her work cut out for her.

• The teaching side of life

  After 24 years as a warehouse worker and night shop steward of Teamsters Local 812, Dan Federico has traded in his handheld inventory computer for a piece of chalk and a bunch of great kids at PS 22 in Queens.

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