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From college to classroom

June 23, 2010

Jen Richard is a first-year teacher at Concord High School. She taught five classes and had roughly 120 students in either Civics or Geography and Cultures courses. Although her first semester was trying, she gained confidence as the year went on.

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Part one of two

Her freshman year

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It didn't take the students long to see the blue notes stuck on the desktops in their fifth-floor classroom. "Oh, hell no," said a girl with her blond hair pulled high in a ponytail. "Do we have assigned seats? I might leave this class," said another girl. The ponytailed girl turned to her neighbor,… 8

June 23, 2010
Part two of two

Finding her feet

Jen Richard's first year teaching

It was early on a gray morning in late January, and the new civics students were getting into their discussion about what makes a good citizen. A boy suggested Martin Luther King Jr. was being a good person when he broke the law by eating in segregated restaurants - but maybe not a good citizen. A girl in the back… 4

June 24, 2010
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