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Expressive Writing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, March/April 2019 Issue

By Lex Talamo

I moved to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as a naïve 22-year-old teacher in 2009, with high hopes and big plans to instill my love of writing in my 80 incoming middle school students.

My principal informed me there was no formal writing curriculum—I would have to create one from scratch.

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Lex Talamo graduated with a Master’s Degree in investigative journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. She has also taught middle and high school writing.

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