Bellamy, Linda, 1952-

Wright, Christina

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2005-10-25

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Linda Bellamy was a 53-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place at the public library in Mint Hill, North Carolina. She was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1952. She was educated at University of Georgia and University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and was employed as a preschool and elementary school teacher.

Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL students without any special training in the field. Ms. Bellamy praises Irwin Elementary for its approach to education and details the many components of open education employed within the school. She speaks about the benefits of open education, and shares her opinion that the environment created by open education is more conducive to learning than the stressful environment created by high stakes testing in traditional schools. Ms. Bellamy concludes by discussing her views on various problems present in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, and suggests options for finding solutions to these problems.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master file. Interview originally recorded on minidisc and digitized using Digidesign 003 rack.

Elementary school teachers
Preschool teachers

Bellamy, Linda, 1952-

Irwin Avenue Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Open plan schools
Teachers
Multiculturalism

North Carolina--Charlotte

Interviews
Oral histories

1980-2010

Open schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

Irwin Avenue Open School records, 1957-2004. J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Irwin Avenue Open School records, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/287)

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