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Dottie
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Dottie Blais taught Language Arts for more than 20 years in secondary schools in Georgia, Louisiana and Colorado.
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Ivory Tower: Lessons for a Teacher
Veteran teacher Dottie Blais writes openly about a question that too often is left unspoken and unanswered: How does a teacher's whiteness get in the way of successful multicultural education?
Dottie Blais