Obama’s sister tells a ‘learning story’ about their mom
Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama’s half sister, gives us the third installment in a series called “Faces of Learning,” a national campaign designed to explore what powerful learning environments and highly effective teachers really look like.
Soetoro-Ng tells about Ann Durham, her mother and President Obama’s, and her power as a teacher to her children. Durham died in 1995 and is the main character in Soetoro-Ng’s first children’s book, called “Ladder to the Moon.”
The Faces of Learning campaign is designed to answer the following questions: How do people learn? How do I learn? What does the ideal learning environment look like? And how can we create more of them?”
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This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.