Head of the Class: Mac grad Grant Stegner '08 is Teaching for America in the Bronx
Grant Stegner (photo by Michael Crouser)
5/28/2009
Former Macalester soccer player Grant Stegner '08 is teaching middle school students in the Bronx and was recently profiled by Daniel LaChance in the most recent issue of Macalester Today.
From the article: "In the movie version of Grant Stegner’s life, his first year as a South Bronx middle-school teacher would involve climactic moments of triumph: students stumbling into an epiphany during a free-form discussion of “Rip Van Winkle,” a group of kids so enthralled with Shakespeare that they stay after school to keep acting out scenes, a moment of teary-eyed understanding as a student who began the year withdrawn opens up in a class discussion . . .
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