To dig in to her new job as superintendent of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, Marie Feagins took her seat at a desk.
Not her own desk at district headquarters, but a student desk in a classroom. She sat amid Northaven Elementary School students learning how to put together and define compound words like “horsefly” and “blackbird,” and later with Grandview Heights Middle School seventh graders solving math word problems about super-cold temperatures.
“I really want to see — and feel, more importantly — what the experience is like for you all,” she told a group of Grandview Heights students in April.
