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I don’t think I really understood it when one of the administrators who hired me (I can’t remember his name) in Raymondville, Texas told me: “It takes five years to make an English teacher.” For me, it took four – or – after four I finally understood the pleasures of public school teaching. Though even after those four years, I still struggled and had to immerse myself in the community and students’ lives to achieve that pleasure.
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Jupp, J.C. (2013). West’s Self-Creation. In: Kress, T.M., Lake, R. (eds) We Saved the Best for You. Imagination and Praxis, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-122-1_23
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