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A Little Sunday Inspiration

ByChristi Fultz

We have a new superintendent this year. He sends us an email every morning with an educational quote, inspiring message, or interesting article. The following is one I saved. As I was cleaning my messages out, I came across it again and wanted to share it here. I was just going to share the quote he found, but decided to share the entire message because it was so well-written.


“The best teachers have the best
students – every year.” –Todd Whitaker
 
We all
know that each school year with new students that walk into our classrooms
brings about a whole new set of challenges, joys, sorrows, and memories. No one
year, classroom, or student is identical, but it’s our attitude that is most
important in how we consistently deal with our students. The age-old question,
“Is teaching an art, science, or craft?” comes to my mind today. Personally, I
believe it is all three of those because teaching definitely requires strong
content knowledge, a unique ability to relate and communicate to students that
inspires them to master the subject matter, and a passion to become better at
your skills/talents each and every day so students truly do observe you as a
life-long learner and teacher. Have a great week of doing what you
love!!
I think there’s a lot of truth to the quote and what our superintendent wrote. It’s easy to become discouraged (and we’ve all had those years!), but our attitude really does make a difference. I start every year by telling my students how lucky they are to be in the very best classroom– ours! I remind them of this when it seems like we’re having a hard time making good choices as a group. Students really do live up to our expectations.

Finally, this is completely unrelated but I had to let you know about it anyway. I was blogstalking Unless Teaching yesterday and found out about Symbaloo.com. It’s a website that lets you program your bookmarks with unique colors and images to create a sort of game board. I started with Adrienne’s, but then customized it for my kiddos. You can grab her board or mine to get started if you want. How cool is that?! I’m working on a reading board now and will post more about it when I have that ready, but when I find something this good I just have to share it right away so you can get to using it also!

PS- I’m writing a series here on my blog over the next six days. Here’s a sneak preview video. If I get to 250 followers by the end of the series, there will be a $25 Amazon gift card giveaway to one of my followers so be sure to share my blog with your teacher friends!


10 Comments

  1. That is a very powerful quote and one I try to live up to every single day. I always feel that if my students are not having a good day, it's my fault. They literally feed right off of us. I try hard to make every day a good day for myself and for my students. Thanks for sharing the quote and letter with us. Have a super day!

    Lori
    Teaching With Love and Laughter

  3. I enjoyed reading the article. We can definitely make a difference in our room and we need to be lifelong learners. 🙂 The books you preview look interesting. Can't wait to find out what you are doing with them!
    Lori
    Conversations in Literacy

  8. Can't wait to see what your blog is about and loved the quote as well as the message from your Superintendent.

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