Forever After

by Teachers College Press

• ISBN13: 9780807747155
• ISBN10: 0807747157
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This remarkable volume present the untold stories of what happened in New York City schools on 9/11. Moving first-hand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and school leaders who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center and around the City.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Beyond Incomprehensibility	ix
Maxine Greene
Preface	xii
Carole Saltz and Maureen Grolnick
1. Moving Back and Moving On	1	(30)
Patricia Lent
2. Questioning the Answers to 9/11	31	(10)
Isaac Brooks
3. "By the Way, This Is Not in the Principal's Manual"	41	(12)
Ada Dolch
4. Playing Through Adversity	53	(10)
Tom Goodridge
5. Commandeering the Phones: The District Office	63	(10)
Claudia DiSalvo
6. Hopeful Visions: The Faces of Children	73	(12)
Marygrace Berberian
7. Hominid Development: On Being a Social Studies Teacher During September 11th	85	(12)
Dalia Hochman
8. Equal and Opposite Reactions	97	(10)
Abigail Deutsch
9. Building Inner Preparedness	107	(16)
Linda Lantieri, with Madhavi Nambiar and Michael Chavez-Reilly
10. Testifying to Our Existence: Exploring Religions and Cultures Through Mural Painting	123	(18)
Debbie Almontaser
11. The Youngest Witnesses	141	(18)
Loyan Beausoleil
12. Voices from the Crossroads	159	(18)
Ethan Lowenstein
13. Question Marks All Over the City	177	(6)
Lia Friedman
14. Rediscovering Compassion in the Classroom	183	(10)
Amy Martin
15. The Doorway to Change	193	(12)
Lorrie Mann
16. Unknowingness	205	(10)
Rosalind Winter
17. A Teacher's Journal	215	(18)
Stacey Fell-Eisenkraft
18. The Morning After, and the Mourning After That	233	(14)
Michelle Fine
About the Contributors	247