Finding Your Fit with Katrina Pommerening

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03/11/20 • 52 min

In this episode, I sit down with long-time friend Katrina Pommerening to discuss our early days in the classroom as part of Teach for America, reading the newspaper as children, and how it takes a special kind of person to teach middle school.
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