Those Who Teach Also Do: At the Nora School, Staff Action Leads to Student Discovery
March 5, 2021
For a trio of teachers at The Nora School in Silver Spring, teaching means action. They’re turning the old saying on its head, because they not only teach, they also do.
Scott Madden loves getting out to meet his neighbors, so when five families could not come by to pick up textbooks, he delivered them. “It was like the census all over again – but a much shorter day,” he said, recalling his recent stint working for the US Census when, in DC’s Dog Days of August, he went from house to house, knocking on people’s doors. “I had a lot of great conversations,” he said. “It’s all about human contact, those interactions.”