New Teachers Developing as Educators/Activists

Abstract

One warm April day at the end of my junior year of college, I (Liesl) walked into an elementary school in a quiet suburb of St. Louis. The students were mainly European American. A few African American children attended through a desegregation-busing program. Kate, my co-author, and I were one of the many European American females working at the school. As I got close to Kate's room she popped out of the door and greeted me, smiling.