I LIVE for...
- sitting in a classroom and watching the perfect lesson take shape. A lesson in which students and teachers are learning together and students are actually engaged in their learning.
- Friday Night Lights. All seems right in the world during football season.
- standing in an empty hallway with my eyes shut when school is not in session and just picturing the school in my head.
- students walking across the stage at graduation, shaking my hand, and seeing the pride in their eyes.
- Monday mornings. I don't have a job, I have a way of life.
- getting my hands dirty in problem solving. If it needs to get solved, I will stay up all hours of the night to get it figured out.
- teachers who love their jobs and who are committed to excellence.
- students finally figuring out something that they are great at and seeing their faces when they do figure it out.
- listening to kids talk and try to figure out the world they are in. They are quite insightful.
- having former students coming up to me after they have graduated and tell me what they are up to.
- having teachers who have retired or moved on stay connected and visit with me about all the good times they had while they were teaching.
- engaging others in meaningful conversation about what education is and how we can make it better.
- communities who support their schools and realize that education is the key to a prosperous future.
- teaching teachers
- seeing students and teachers come in on Monday mornings with totally different expectations for what the day holds for them.
- serving people
- the sense of accomplishment that comes when I work with teachers to accomplish a task.
- being excellent in all facets of my job (I am not there yet)
- The sound of lockers
- seeing students interact with one another during lunch.
- Board of Education meetings. Seriously! I think it is phenomenal that unpaid, publicly elected officials come together to talk education on a regular basis. That is so cool.
- hiring future educators who come in with wide eyes and wide open minds. The world is their oyster.
- people asking for help. Not everyone can do everything. We are all in this together and need to support one another.
- sitting in my office at the end of the day, turning on the iTunes, and reflecting on all the FANTASTIC things that were accomplished today.
If you work in a school, what do you LIVE for...
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