Talks With Teachers

Chris Lehman Educational Consultant, Author, Blogger -- Bronx, NY    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Chris has been in education for 12 years. He started as a middle school teacher in the Bronx, then moved to a high school in Brooklyn. He has also been a literacy coach, and he's worked with the Reading and Writing project with Columbia University, where he served as a senior staff developer. Now, he's working on the K-12 level effecting literacy and he has moved into the digital world with his blog.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – His family -- his parents and grand parents, who inspired his love of learning. A pivotal person was and made him believe in himself was his 7th grade English teacher, Mrs. Ekstrand, who took him from shy Chris and made him believe in himself. Caroline Wagner, at NYU, also believed in him and noticed that the way he listened to kids is sp