His co-teacher was Carol Gripshover, the manager and buyer at the Bacchus wine store in Manhattan.
It's not for teachers who "want to turn a page in a book", adds Kelly Rafferty, the co-teacher.
Ms. McNally's path from student to co-teacher and constant partner has been a hard one, they both say.
Her co-teacher, Romina Piersanti, then showed a series of video examples from real classrooms explaining dos and don'ts of Doug Lemov's "Right Is Right" strategy.
Miss Zhu, Meyer's co-teacher at Coal Lane Elementary, is his almost constant companion, but who knows what makes her tick?
"As soon as you bring out a duck and say this is my co-teacher, people know this is a different kind of yoga".
Back in the classroom, Chomsky's co-teacher asked whether one of the students wanted to try to make a case for the war in Iraq.
Whereas I understood the American operation in Afghanistan as fundamentally a liberation, my South African co-teacher and our students understood it as superpower bullying.
I'd walk the few blocks to school with my host mother, teach with her half of the day and teach the rest of my classes with my other co-teacher.
His co-teacher, Peter Molnar, was a former member of the Hungarian parliament who had drifted away from politics and into academia as the progressive youth movement that he had founded got co-opted by populist right-wing elements.
Sadly, they can't understand a word without my co-teacher translating, and the vocabulary is about as relevant to them as learning, say, "spaceship" or "toilet seat" (they will probably never use either one).
