NPR: The National Teachers Initiative

"I think there is no higher calling than being a public school teacher in this country," StoryCorps founder Dave Isay tells Weekend Edition Sunday host Audie Cornish.

"Teachers are feeling under attack and underappreciated," Isay says. "We want to do our part over the next year to turn that around."

StoryCorps, the American oral history project on NPR, is conducting a new project for the academic year called the National Teachers Initiative, to feature conversations with teachers across the country — teachers talking to each other, students interviewing the teachers who changed their lives, and more. To read their stories, please visit NPR.