Posts Tagged ‘Karen Schreiner’
The classroom, the ballot and the big bad wall — Oakland’s children tackle the Trump effect
One afternoon in the middle of summer, Beatriz Valencia’s son Jonathan came home with a question. The 7-year-old wanted to know if his mom knew that Donald Trump was running for president.
Read MoreOakland teacher wins Teaching Tolerance award
On a Friday afternoon in the middle of a staff meeting at Aspire Public School’s Monarch Academy, second grade teacher Karen Schreiner felt her phone buzz. It buzzed again. And again. And again. The call was from an area code she didn’t recognize. Schreiner whispered to her principal that she’d be right back and stepped…
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