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Podcast: Speaking of Education Podcast
Episode: Why I Started and Why I Stay—Remaining Committed to Our Children’s Future with Guest Michelle Cravens
Description: In this episode, we talk with Michelle Cravens who offers her perspective as an educator with many years of experience within different contexts and age levels. At the beginning of the podcast, Cravens shares how an early job at an Animal Shelter had a profound impact on her. At the shelter she cared for animals who had been abandoned and abused. She learned to nurture them and at times hold them tight as they left the pain of this world behind. She worked beside Class-D felons who had overwhelming compassion for the animals and an incomparable work ethic. This ex...