Survivors of the Storm: Teaching in a Post-Katrina World

Source: Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Volume 28, Issue 1 January 2007, pages 69 - 75

This article describes the independent reading and research project of an early childhood education graduate student who taught in a school district heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. She surveyed a sample of kindergarten teachers in the district to determine how they were responding in the aftermath of Katrina.

The voices of teachers reflect their personal and professional struggles as they went about teaching in a post-Katrina world. She describes the challenges she faced in completing this project and what she learned through this experience