First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig heard what sounded like the rapid firing of an assault rifle.

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Ignoring bad behavior was the hardest part of applying the techniques, said first-grade teacher Tara Irizarry.

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While Glasgow was hunkered down in the closet, Waynel Mayes, a first-grade teacher, distracted her students with songs and games.

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First-grade teacher Kristen Roig herded her students into a bathroom, locked the door and told them not to make a peep.

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The 1966 song was understood to be a favourite of 27-year-old Victoria Soto, a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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"It turned out to be the greatest gift, " says Gerson, a first-grade teacher who has just opened a yoga studio with a friend.

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The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.

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And everyone from his mother to his first girlfriend to his fifth-grade gym teacher to the President of the United States is watching him pitch.

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