Amy Youngman’s seventh- and eighth-grade humanities students had left for the day. Other than some shouts from the after-school program in the courtyard, all was quiet in her second-floor classroom here.
Youngman’s day of teaching at Oakland’s ERES Academy – part of the Aspire charter school network – wasn’t over, though.
Nor was Danny Shapiro’s day of learning. Shapiro, not 13 but 30, is learning to be a teacher. Youngman, three years younger than Shapiro but with six years of teaching already under her belt, is his mentor.
via In search of quality teachers, charter network trains its own.