I wanted to share a brief word to support and encourage teachers, especially now as they navigate some very unique and demanding COVID restrictions/expectations while either teaching virtually, in a blended or hybrid model, or fully in person.
My wife is a teacher, my daughter is a teacher, and I’m blessed to work in a school full of amazing teachers. I love teachers! Teachers are the backbone of all schools. Someone once said “Tell me a profession more important than teaching, and I will ask, what if those in that profession had been poorly taught!”
If you are a teacher, I want to say THANK YOU! Thank you for answering the call to teach, because I truly believe teaching is a calling … especially this year. Thank you for investing your time, your talents, your creativity, and even your own money into creating an environment where kids can be themselves, take risks, trust, and learn. Thank you for the early mornings and late nights of planning engaging lessons, the extra duty and cleaning, for grading and offering feedback, for zooming and looming, for coaching a team, for sponsoring a club, and for managing not only your mask and distance, but those of your students … all to not just make a paycheck, but to make a difference.
An amazing second-career teacher named Paul wrote the following in my favorite book. Don’t get tired of helping others. You will be rewarded when the time is right, if you don’t give up. (Gal. 6:9)
May God encourage, protect, and bless all of our teachers!
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