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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Teacher Alicia Stenard, addressing school lockdowns
Description: Alicia Stenard believes that a topic percolating just below the consciousness of the American public — school lockdowns — needs to be addressed. As a longtime Albany teacher, she worried about the effects lockdown drills had on her students’ psyches. Not only did the drills distract from learning but they could leave lasting scars, leading kids not to trust school as a safe place. Still, Stenard could see that the drills are needed. So she came up with a solution. She told her kindergartners a story — serious enough to get them to do the drills promptly but not frightening. It worked so well, sh...