On her first day of seventh-grade summer school in Germany, freshman Alina Fleischmann introduced herself to her teachers and received the expected reactions from all but one: her health teacher. It wasn鈥檛 until she tapped her teacher鈥檚 shoulder that she found out that she was deaf. This interaction...
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Almost everyone鈥攎ale-identifying or not鈥攈as been called 鈥渁 guy鈥� at least once in their life, whether it鈥檚 through the welcoming words of a teacher, an enthusiastic text or an obnoxious shout across the hall. To most, this word is just that: a common greeting.
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On Sept. 5, German teacher Claudia Schroeppel won the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Goethe-Institute Certificate of Merit, a national award that celebrates and recognizes the work of German teachers in schools and communities.
Schroeppel believes that the award is really...
