Out of A War Zone, Into Classrooms
When she volunteered in her son’s first-grade classroom, she saw a pressing need for better ways to teach.
When she volunteered in her son’s first-grade classroom, she saw a pressing need for better ways to teach.
After escaping war-ravaged Sarajevo in 1995 and immigrating to the U.S., Dalila Dragnić-Cindrić earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, then a master’s of engineering management. She built a successful career in the tech world, leading teams working to solve interdisciplinary problems. But when she volunteered in her son’s first-grade classroom, she saw a pressing need for better ways to teach. So she came to Carolina to earn a doctoral degree from the UNC School of Education and to learn how to better teach math and science.
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This is story number 135 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.
