Chess Games — My First Day of Teaching

Each and Every
Aug 31, 2018 · 6 min read

by Regina Armour

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On the first day of having my own classroom, I encountered a phenomenon that would fuel my passion for educational change and that still haunts me even now. In the early nineties I became a teacher at a small Catholic elementary school on the west side of Chicago. The neighborhood at that time was very, very depressed, and the school was not too far from a major Chicago…

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