Dozens of second graders happily jostle their way toward the cafeteria at Decatur’s International Community School. They walk through a long hallway adorned with school projects, flags from different countries and pictures of people around the world. And they pass Scorch – the school’s bearded dragon.
Sima Niroula is headed in the other direction. She’s a kindergarten teaching assistant, and she’s heading back to her classroom where kids are getting ready for a brain break.
Niroula is one of three women in a new pilot program that is retraining incoming professionals who immigrated from other countries to be teachers.
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