We're pleased to announce that Luis Sierra, a teacher at Alvarado Elementary School, has won our October Teacher of the Month award.
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The opening of the Writers’ room (decked out in 826 fantasy pirate fashion) took place on September 16th starting with a three week biography project. Over forty fabulous tutors and myself worked on this project with two eighth grade language arts teachers, Ms. Bita Nazarian and Dr. Joyce Coble. Over the course of a week we saw the entire eight grade language arts classes-half one day and the remaining half the next. Student worked primarily one-on-one with an 826 tutor to perfect their biography papers, which included facts about an elder that they had interviewed.

The first day, we warmed up the students up by having them practice interviewing techniques.
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