“I definitely pictured taking end-of-school pictures with the kids and doing fun activities at the end. So this is, in some ways, really sad for me…They’d already made such progress in the middle of the year, and to kind of see that slip away is pretty heartbreaking.”

In this edition of Silent Heroes, DPTV Education Manager Tara Hardy talks with Abigail Gooding, a first grade teacher at Noble Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. An honest conversation about the challenges and joys of teaching six-year-olds via remote learning, and the major lesson she’s learned through her experience of “pandemic teaching.”

Thank you, Ms. Gooding, for being dedicated to your students!