An introduction, and invitation
Those are good questions. I’m still trying to figure out the answers. But here’s a start…
I’m Sabrina. I went into teaching for an increasingly common reason: I believed that there were too many “bad teachers” teaching in our neediest schools, and as a smart, passionate person with an elite liberal arts education, I wanted to be part of The Solution. Equipped with several years of experience teaching and running educational programs in low-income communities, practice and substitute teaching experience in an independent school, research credits, undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework in educational psychology, theory, policy, and practice, and a full teacher’s license, I began my first experience as a classroom teacher in a low-performing school.
I was not prepared for the experience that followed.
The last two years of my life have been a whirlwind of experiences–some rewarding, many
