Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir

A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community. She relies on her courage, resilience, and wit while enduring freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness, and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps, but eventually realizes that those challenges pale in comparison to the life lessons she learns about the heart of teaching-lessons from her students, their culture, and their community, on the vast, windy landscape at the edge of the Chukchi Sea.

Author: Genét Simone
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 10/12/2023
Pages: 530
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.07d
ISBN13: 9798765244289
ISBN10: 8765244281
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs