TT#52 - Rural school needs, making real world connections and investing in our future: Shannon, rural school French teacher, Founder of non-profit STaRLT

Teacher Tales

Sep 08 2025 | 00:31:19

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Show Notes

In this episode, we gain new perspectives and insights to the needs of our rural schools from Shannon, a rural school teacher in Georgia who founded the non-profit STaRLT. Shannon moved from an urban school to a rural school and realized that she nor her students had the same resources or support in a rural school setting that were available in an urban setting. These resources and support are critical to not only the success of the teacher, but more importantly, to that of the student! So, Shannon created the Small Town and Rural Language Teachers (STaRLT) non-profit in order…

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