Comic: For music teacher, virtual school meant teaching kids 'to hear the way I hear'
It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways amid the backdrop of a pandemic. In this comic series, we'll illustrate one teacher's story each week from now until the end of the school year.
Episode 4
Sarah Mamula, a high school orchestra teacher in Clark County Public Schools in Las Vegas, on shifting the paradigm.

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!["My school has been [doing] virtual learning since the pandemic started. And I had a mini epiphany in September. where I was like ... I can't do this! I can't hear them! Our whole curriculum is based around me hearing and assessing them."](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/04/12/teachercomix-sarah-ig-2_custom-aaa7c097114cdb182b9378b97f018e385f4293f3.jpg?s=600)
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!["Your goals cannot be the same goals [as they were before]. That doesn't mean that quality has to suffer, just the goals have to be different."](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/04/12/teachercomix-sarah-ig-7_custom-3f05e4ed4c38fdd0f9b16d172679f60e542a5118.jpg?s=600)
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