Our tour guide was a forty -
year veteran teacher named Charles Cassar, who couldn't wait to show us the rehearsal spaces, dance studios, and the high school's two magnificent theatres — all of it in the last place you'd look for them, smack in the middle of a blue - collar refinery town that took the hardest blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
-LSB-...] I had the opportunity to meet with a small cohort of new
teachers and a
veteran, henceforth Ms.. A (not her real
name), who was implementing AFL during my first
year in district.