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Five teachers go bedside-to-bedside at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, giving lessons to children who come to the hospital for long stay treatments

Teacher Sarah Adair walked into the hospital for her first day of work this school year and saw her former student, fresh from a checkup of his new heart.

The boy stayed in the Montreal Children’s Hospital for a year as he waited for a heart transplant. Adair was with him every day: “I was his Grade 2 teacher for the whole school year,” she said. Then this summer, he got a new heart.

Adair is one of five teachers who go bedside-to-bedside at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, providing young patients who come to the hospital for cancer treatments, dialysis and other regimens that call for a longer stay, with hour-long sessions focus on learning rather than treatment.

Read the full story: Learning is an ‘oasis’ for kids at Montreal Children’s Hospital

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