Chess Games — My First Day of Teaching
Aug 31, 2018 · 6 min read
by Regina Armour

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…

