Teachers love summer! It's a time to relax, plan for the next school year and spend time with our families. If you have young children, you can do amazing things with them like take them to a science museum, draw on the sidewalk with chalk and spend hours in the pool like me and my son. This past week, however, I got an email from our head of schools and our principal that asked something of all the teachers that surprised me. They asked us to come to the school and work on cleaning it and restoring it for 4 days at the end of July. WHAT!? They want me to come to the school and clean in my last 3 weeks of summer?! Are they kidding? It was so easy for that selfish attitude to jump up and say, "no! absolutely not! These last summer days are for my family! Plus it's 4 million degrees outside! What am I supposed to do,...sweat?" Then, I started to think about the idea and I just got excited. I love my teacher friends and I haven't seen them for weeks. I thought about getting together and getting dirty and laughing all in an attempt to better our school and help our students feel like this campus is their home. I invite you to lead an initiative at your school to help do something to help. Help a teacher move in to a new room. Help a teacher organize their papers - something! Work together to build a community of educators who love their school and their students. I guarantee - you won't be sorry.
by: Kathleen
by: Kathleen