Carver, Laura Index

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I interviewed Ms. Laura Carver on Tuesday, March 20 at her office in Hornsby Middle School. Unfortunately, a small portion of the oral history was lost because the voice recorder's memory card filled up, and I did not notice it until after she was done responding to my question. However, the unrecorded section could not have been much longer than two or three minutes. Ms. Carver is an English as a Second Language teacher in the WJCC school system and has been since 2015, so we began the interview with a brief overview of her day-to-day interactions with English Language Leaners and their parents. We also discussed her educational background and her experience working as a missionary and how both impact her interpretation of her role as an ESL teacher. We ended the interview discussing the challenges of ESL education, specifically in the local area, faced by the ELL students, their teachers, their families and guardians, and WJCC school system .and a few possible ways to better address those challenges in the future. There were three separate sections that were removed at the request of the Ms. Carver and they are noted in the transcript. Nothing crucial to the slory line of her narrative was lost by these deletions.

The content of this note was taken from the headnote created by the interview team.

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