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Education Nation Participant: Supporting Students Means Supporting Teachers « InterACT

Education Nation Participant: Supporting Students Means Supporting Teachers « InterACT

Education Nation Participant: Supporting Students Means Supporting Teachers

Today’s guest post comes from teacher Jairo De La Torre, of Los Angeles. But first, a slightly long introduction… indulge me.

Jairo De La Torre

Jairo De La Torre, on Education Nation webcast, May 15, 2011.

One week ago, NBC’s Education Nation produced a Teacher Town Hall webcast. Given the shortcomings (to put it mildly) of last year’s Education Nation programming, teachers I know were streaming the webcast with varying degrees of skepticism and pessimism. When it was all over, I wrote that it had been successful in raising multiple viewpoints on important issues. (InterACT also cross-posted another review by Christal Watts,