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My name is Sandra Desjardins. I am in the English Department at Scottsdale Community College, and when I think about being hired in 1989 in the Maricopa District, I had only done a little teaching and I thought teaching was all about technique.
So, while I was practicing my technique the most amazing thing happened to me, and that was my students became my teachers.
(And) I realized that teaching in the most important way had everything to do with integrity, identity, and connecting in that place where we are all human beings.
(And) I have had the great fortune of being taught that by my students and I have immense gratitude to them for that.