Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
Jessica Lahey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I even texted my two podcast hosts and my two best friends, KJ Delantonia and Serena Bowen, and I said, I got it.
And like the the title was there, the book was there.
And actually at first it was gonna be about prevention and treatment.
And my agent said, Look, you know
Let's just do the prevention stuff.
Um, there's a whole book there and that's where you as a researcher can really shine.
And so, you know, it ha it once it happened, it happened really fast, but it also took five years to sort of get there.
But you know, along the way, the students I was teaching, they were just it was the best teaching experience of my entire life.
I knew that and I knew if I was gonna write more about teaching, it was gonna have something to do with the fact that
It doesn't always look like A's and it doesn't always look like all my students getting a five on the advanced placement English exam.
Or that the rewards I was getting from teaching these kids was so much bigger than any um, you know, hoity toity private school teaching experience I had before.
So there was something there I just didn't know what it was until it started.
all went chink, chink, chink, all the little pieces came together.
I love that.
I did actually write about it for creative nonfiction.
I wrote about one of the writing assignments that I do.
It's called I've Taught Monsters and it's has to do with the assignment, obviously not the kids.
And um that was really great, but I also sort of felt like
I didn't just want to tell the kids stories.
I wanted there to be some bigger purpose for talking about these kids.
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