Erin Einhorn

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Jun 26 2019

‘It makes us better teachers because we’re not carrying it inside’: How a Detroit preschool helps teachers cope with the stress of the job

A Detroit-area preschool is taking a therapeutic approach to addressing the impact on educators of what’s known as “secondary trauma,” the distress that comes from learning about difficult things that have happened to others. Read more…

Written by Erin · Categorized: Chalkbeat, Education Stories

Oct 02 2018

The children of 8B: One classroom, 31 journeys, and the reason it’s so hard to fix Detroit’s schools

By the time she’d reached the eighth grade, Shantaya Davis had attended so many schools — at least five — that she couldn’t name them all. “I don’t even know what grade it was,” she said of one school. Read more… This story is part of the series Moving Costs: How students changing schools disrupts Detroit […]

Written by Erin · Categorized: Bridge Magazine, Chalkbeat, Education Stories

May 19 2018

‘Possible, but daunting’: Inside Nikolai Vitti’s early effort to transform Detroit’s battered public schools

Three months after taking on one of the most daunting tasks in American education, Nikolai Vitti was having a fit over pizza — $340,000 worth of pizza. Vitti, Detroit’s new school superintendent, had just discovered that the district had set aside that eye-popping sum of money last year to pay Domino’s Pizza for what he […]

Written by Erin · Categorized: Bridge Magazine, Chalkbeat, Detroit Free Press, Education Stories

Mar 26 2018

On a superintendent’s first day, just another Tuesday for 37 Detroit first-graders with no music or art or gym

Spend a morning in a Detroit classroom and it quickly becomes clear exactly how much will have to change in this city before it looks anything like the “mecca” that Vitti imagines. Read more…

Written by Amanda · Categorized: Chalkbeat, Detroit Free Press, Education Stories

Dec 05 2016

The Challenge of Manufacturing a Diverse Campus

A charter in Detroit that sought to attract families of all races and incomes is seeing real integration. But it might not stay that way. Read more…

Written by Amanda · Categorized: Atlantic, Chalkbeat, Education Stories

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