TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. From today until New Year’s Day, we have a special end-of-the-year series for you, featuring some of our favorite interviews of 2022. We’ll start with Sheryl Lee Ralph, who won an Emmy this year for her performance as a teacher in the ABC comedy series “Abbott Elementary.” The series is about the teachers in an under-resourced, majority-Black elementary school in Philadelphia. The creator of the series, Quinta Brunson, plays a new idealistic teacher who’s still a little clueless. Ralph’s character has been teaching for 30 years and is the kind of teacher who, with a glance, can get an unruly…