2011 - That precocious little pre-schooler
who appears in earlier segments (Zappabore 1976, and Community Meeting
1979), is none other than “Tori” Mazur, the ever present child of innocence
of Vieda Mazur, our full-time ‘Gal Friday’ volunteer of the first few years
of M-T who subsequently was added to our staff and hired by the district
as a salaried aide.
When we reunited in 1994, both she
and Tori were there to share an account of the growing pains Tori had experienced
during the years intervening (Part 1 Feb 1994).
Back again in the form of these
two video segments that recently earned her a mini-grant from the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, she talks about how as a classroom teacher
she strives to improve her performance by sharing her experiences with
her colleagues.
Milt Siler, Co-Founder of M-T, who
has followed her professional development at a distance over the years,
recently observed of this intelligent, creative, resourceful adult that
he considers Victoria Mazur to be “….brilliant. The students,” he
said, “are lucky to have her as a teacher.” We certainly will agree. |
