Talks with Teachers #3: Imprisoned Education
Chaska Conrow, who taught at a charter school that operates inside San Francisco County jails, discusses the myths and realities of teaching behind bars.
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Oriane Delfosse
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Oriane Delfosse is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in Best New American Voices 2008 and Storyscape Journal, among other publications. She has an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a B.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar. She has lived in Wyoming, Brooklyn, and Croatia, and now calls San Francisco home.
Talks with Teachers #2: The Idea of Duality
In 2005, before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the New Orleans public education system was one of the worst in the nation.
Talks with Teachers #1: Mutual Respect
“You have to prove your commitment to the students, but that commitment has to be to making them a better student not to changing them into something you think they…