At my school, we do something at the end of the week week called "acknowledgments". We go around and reflect on something that each person has done for one of us, or someone else, during the week, and thank that person for their positive participation in our community.
This week, after what feels like a long, hard winter of hard things and often negativity in my world and life, I finally feel like spring has come and I have something to acknowledge.
To my school:
Thank you for letting me leap headfirst into a million different things every day until I learned that my greatest strength is being able to imagine the classroom as a world I can endlessly re-create in the students' image, and for the thousand mistakes I was allowed to gleefully make along the way. Thank you for this year of helping me get from potential to actual teacher, and for knowing that I have awesome people here that continue to watch me grow into my teacher-self and look forward to a future doing great things I haven't dreamed up yet. Maybe it's been really hard to have a first year teacher on board, but I appreciate every day all the learning I've done with you this year."
Amen for all of you too!
No comments:
Post a Comment