Welcome to The Year Ahead, a mini-series from the Heinemann Podcast, hosted by Meenoo Rami, author of Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re) Invigorate Your Teaching. Meenoo has always believed that teaching is harder if you do it alone, and teaching during a once in a lifetime pandemic is as hard as it gets, but by meeting educators around the world who are going through this too, maybe together, we can share ideas, commiserate, and be a witness to each other’s experiences. In this podcast series, we’ll meet educators who are getting ready to return to school under the most challenging and unusual circumstances.In today’s episode we are meeting Katharine Hsu from the DC metro area. Katherine will be teaching 2nd grade in a title I school this year and will need to adapt many of her current practices to meet this moment. More information about our guest and resources mentioned during this episode are in the show notes. Now, let’s meet Katharine.