Who Is Your Hero?

Do you have a personal hero? Tell us about them. It doesn’t have to be perfect to make a difference in someone else’s life.

Your Everyday Hero: Due D.

Due is a teacher of English in an inner-city, very diverse high school in New Jersey. She recently led her students to self-publish their own book of poetry and teach younger kindergarten and first grade students in surrounding communities to read and do other worthwhile projects inside the classroom. She did this all on her own dumping her own monies into the project. She has done all of this while attending Columbia as a graduate student. And it was where she led her students to read for the first time in public at their Columbia's School of Teaching (NYC.)

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