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Not long ago he was a chemist for Abbott Laboratories. Now his hands shake as he weighs out the zinc nitrate required for the electroplating lab he will lead in less than five minutes, when his Steinmetz High students come back from break. Although he shares the class with veteran teacher Arthur Reliford, a mentor in the Golden Apple Teacher Education program, and fellow intern Shannon Goodwin, the challenge of juggling teaching, grading, lab prep and assignments for his own education course at Northwestern University seems overwhelming at this moment. Some of the white crystals spill, and he berates himself. His inner sense of perfectionism seems more of a hindrance than a help in a lab with a scale less precise than he d like.