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I'll see you on the other side. We spent a very interesting summer in

Northridge, California, complete with a killer earthquake and all kinds of other things happening.

And I would say we were less than wholly prepared to enter the classroom.

That's lifelong educator, Kaya Henderson.

Kaya is describing a time in the early 90s where she spent a summer training with a group of young teachers for Teach for America.

Teach for America recruits young people from top colleges to teach an under-resourced schools.

Kaya is the former executive director of Teach for America's DC office,

the former Chancellor of the DC Public School System, and now she's the co-founder and CEO of the education

technology firm reconstruction but back in the early 90s Kaya was a brand new

recruit for a brand new experiment in teaching and learning.

I was in the third class of Teach for America

and they were figuring it out.

And at the time, Teach for America didn't really have a solidified training model in place.

There were roughly 500 of us that were training, but I think we all entered the classroom feeling woefully

inadequate, but feeling bound and determined to figure it out for our kids. Kaya was gearing up to be a bilingual teacher

and her first placement after that summer of training

was in the South Bronx.

I taught Spanish and half of my kids were African American and the other half of my kids were

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