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COMIC: For Music Teacher, Virtual School Meant Teaching Kids 'To Hear The Way I Hear'

LA Johnson
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NPR

It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways amid the backdrop of a pandemic. In this comic series, we'll illustrate one teacher's story each week from now until the end of the school year.

Episode 4

Sarah Mamula, a high school orchestra teacher in Clark County Public Schools in Las Vegas, on shifting the paradigm.

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LA Johnson is an art director and illustrator at NPR.
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