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August 13, 2003 Mel Nathanson [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
Though she graduated with honors in English and Speech Pathology, Shatrina McKoy was drawn to work as a teacher's assistant at the school where her mother teaches first grade. On her first day at Glenn Elementary School in Durham, McKoy's first task as teacher's assistant was to read a short story to the children. "I love kids, and I wanted to work with kids," she said, jumping forward to get a children's book from second-grade teacher Gretchen Krenzel. "My mom and her best friends are teachers; my Aunt is a teacher - basically, I've been around teaching my whole life." Looking forward becoming a teacher herself, McKoy has enrolled at N.C. Central to get her teaching certificate and hopes to teach high school English soon.
About This Project


Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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