7 years ago today was my fourth day as a teacher.
i watched the twin towers fall from my classroom window in brooklyn. one minute we knew where manhattan was...the next, we didn't.
i'm pretty sure that helping kids to understand what's happening in times of crisis helps you too.
i've always felt lucky to have spent that horrible day in a school with kids. i brought the art supplies downstairs and we drew as a community to keep our minds off what was going on. the drawings i saw kids make in the weeks that followed were like none i'd ever seen and haven't seen since (i was working in an elementary school then). i made copies of some of them.
i always feel homesick for the city and for the sense of community i always felt with new york city public school teachers today.
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