First-Year Teacher Diaries: 'Officially Done With An Insane Year'
St. Louis Public Radio First-year teacher Zachary Udell in his classroom at Froebel Elementary School in St. Louis' Gravois Park neighborhood. Udell didn't have students in his room until halfway through the year, when 11 of his 28 students returned. Another anything-but-normal school year is coming to a close. It was especially tough for new educators, who had no experience to fall back on and had to ride the pandemic’s tsunami while navigating the already choppy waters of first-year teaching. To try to capture it all, St. Louis Public Radio asked first-year teachers in the St. Louis reg...