Natalya Watson, Global Pathways and Immerse Programs profess, finds resilient educators in Ukraine’s underground classrooms
As Natalya Watson walked through the classrooms of a newly built school, teenage boys ran back and forth along the hallway. It was early June, and they were preparing for graduation — about 26 feet underground.
Watson, a Northeastern University associate teaching professor in the Global Pathways and Immerse Programs, was visiting an underground school in Kharkiv, Ukraine, about 25 miles from the Russian border and less than 20 miles from the front line.
“These young people, they were just so happy,” she says.
