Growing Up: Clemencia Spizzirri – ‘Teaching The Dandelion Children’

Clemencia Spizzirri - Des Moines - June 1, 2016

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Growing up in Ecuador, Clemencia Spizzirri recounts how poverty was not far from view. And she shares an encounter changed everything. Clemencia is now a language acquisition teacher, and in 2015 she became Iowa’s Teacher of the Year.

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