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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Sara Slack — Sojourn to Antarctica
Description: Sarah Slack — here, on the deck of the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer — says science teachers who taught her at Farnsworth Middle School and Guilderland High School shaped her into the explorer and teacher she became. “Our job is not just what we talk about in the classroom,” says Slack, who teaches eighth-grade science, technology, engineering, and math, known as STEM, at The Montauk School in Brooklyn, but, rather, modeling “who we are as people.” In this week’s podcast, Slack talks about her most recent sojourn — to Antarctica where she worked with professors and graduate students to map the seafloor under the edge o...