What are teachers grateful for?

EPTR
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:51:22 +0000

Too many things to list that I’m grateful for but here are a few:

*Grateful for every sweet, insightful, tender and intelligent thing any kid has ever said to me.
*Grateful that no matter how tired and drained I am at the end of the year, I get a fresh start every September and a chance to do better.
*Grateful for every parent who has ever said that I make a difference.
*Grateful for the smell of new crayons in the fall.
*Grateful for snow days that matched my kids’ when they were little and we could go sledding together.
*Grateful to see a fresh and nervous group of kindergartners come in every year accompanied by teary moms and dads.
*Grateful for custodians, school secretaries and administrators (well some of them) who GET me.
*Grateful to be employed, in this economy, doing something that matters and that I love.