Dear Teacher,
Be that buoy today! Mark out where danger is. Lead people to the shore. Be a beacon of hope in troubled waters. You are AWESOME!! Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
Yeeeaaah Buoy!
Category: You Are Awesome!!!
The Eye of the Teacher…er…Tiger
Dear Teacher,
It is Monday. The start of a week. I don’t know about you, but I need to get a little psyched up for it. We need a theme song to start us up, don’t you think. Click play, and once the song starts, keep reading. 🙂
Teacher, this is your week. You’ve got this!
If you are still teaching right now, you are ready for this week. You have your plans. You have your ideas. You have your heart for your students.
Don’t worry about the little things. They are not important. Your students are important. You work hard for them. They need you. Remember why you do this! Now, get out there and teach your heart out!
Keep your eye on the goal of changing the future through your students. Look ahead at the potential they have. Help them see it. Give them the expectation and help them rise up to it.
You’ve got this! You are ready. Go awesome the heck out of this week! You will change lives this week! Go do it, Teacher!
If you are on summer break right now, you still have a battle to fight. Some of you need to relax and take a break. School stuff can wait. You need to wind down from the year. You need to disconnect, unwind, and let your mind and body heal from the year of a teacher. School things will still be here when you are done. Your students next year need you to do this…they don’t need a fried out teacher!
Some of you need to stop relaxing. Don’t get into the summer lazy cycle. Spend at least an hour a day on getting stuff prepared for next year. Get pumped up for everything you can do next year and start planning!
It is all too easy to put things off for later. Do a little every day. You will thank yourself later! You need to keep a little of that teaching mindset and don’t completely check out. If I am calling you out, don’t feel bad…I am calling myself out here!
Next year is coming. Your students need the best of you. Relax, if you need to. Stop relaxing, if you need to. You are going to have an AWESOME year next year…so this week needs to be an AWESOME week to help that happen. It will be an awesome week. You will be awesome. You are awesome!
You have the eye of the Teacher…so live it out! You are amazing! You will make this week great! You are awesome! Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
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Teacher Superpowers – Super Vision
Dawn of a New Day
Dear Teacher,
Today is a new day! It is a bright start! Yesterday does not matter, good or bad. Today is something brand new. Get out there and shine your awesomeness! You will do great and wonderful things!
If yesterday was rough, today is hasn’t been written yet. Don’t let yesterday ruin today! Make today amazing!
If yesterday was a good day, today is just starting. Don’t rest on yesterday, make today an even better day!
Don’t be sad. Don’t be lazy. Don’t let today just happen to you…you happen to today. Make it a day unlike any other!
Help someone. Cheer up someone. Encourage someone. Do something that you and others will remember and make a difference that will be remembered!
You are so awesome, Teacher! Awesome the heck out of today! You are amazing and believed in! Be awesome today!
Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
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Wake of Awesome
How Are You Awesome? Let Me Count The Ways…
The Ripple Effect
Dear Teacher,
You never really know your impact on others. Sometimes you get to see some of how what you do effects people, but you will never really get to know all of the effects of how what you do changes and and impacts other people. Everything that you do for other people is like dropping a rock in a pond. The effect is immediate at the point where you drop it, but that energy is sent out as ripples and waves throughout the rest of the pond (or at least much further out than the area where the rock went).
This can be viewed in a positive or negative light, but you know I am going to talk about the positive!
Yesterday, I had the honor of seeing the immediate reaction of a note of encouragement to a colleague. It was awesome. Without knowing it, what was said were words that were needed at a timely moment for someone. I got a thank you, a hug, and was told the effects that my words had (and we seldom get to have that). This was quite awesome for me to be able to see the “drop in the pond.”
However, I will never get to see the effects of that splash. The encouragement and “energy” was passed from me to another teacher, but what happened afterwards? Was there a chain reaction that went from the teacher to students and other teachers? Was the energy then moved from them to others? And then to other people…then others…and others…and…well, you get the point.
We just do not know our true impact! This is one of the reasons our job can be draining. We know the potential for all of the little and big things that we do, but we do not always get to see how that potential plays out. We do not get a results report that shows all of our effects on the lives of students and other teachers. I tell you, though, your effects are big, Teacher! You are making an impact, and it stretches far down the line!
I am so talking to myself right now. I am facing the last day with students for the year. It is hard. I do not know all of the good that I have past on down to my students. I will miss them, but more than that I wish I knew if all my hard work will pay off in their lives. I can say that I know it was all worth it. The ripples will be felt, even if not by me.
So keep on doing all that you do, Teacher! No matter what is going on in your life, put on that positive face. Smile. Say thank-yous. Do something awesome for someone else. Love on your students. Be hopelessly hopeful. As a friend of mine says, “Give hugs when necessary.” Be your normal awesome to your students and fellow teachers. And keep on doing all of the little and big things you always do. You never know what these things are doing for others, but always know that you are making a difference!
For instance, I do not know if you are getting tired of me saying this or not, but you are awesome! You are believed in! You are affecting me and others in ways you just do not and will not know. Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
PS…Sorry for all of the links today, I am trying out something new…a way to weave in older messages that newer readers may have missed. Hey, maybe you needed some reminders of things said here before, anyway. I know I do! 🙂
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The Thank You Note You May Never Get
Dear Teacher,
Your students love you and know that you care. They think you are awesome, but sometimes they just don’t have the words or know-how to let you know. So, because of that, I wrote the note that they feel about you but may never write. They notice all that you do. One day they will look back and see you as one of the main influences in their lives. You may never get this card, but it is very true! Please read and let it be from the students you have struggled with the most to reach, connect, and help them reach some of their potential. Let this be their words to you.
You are awesome! Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
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The Joy of Thanks Giving
Dear Teacher,
I bet you had to look at the title twice, didn’t you? 🙂 I know it is June and not November…this post is not about the holiday. It is about thanks…giving it and getting it. We all need a thank you and we all have many thank-yous to give out.
I warned you that most of my posts would be about looking back at the school year this week. This one came from reflecting (or refracting) on the school year, but it does apply to everyone in any stage of a “teacher year.” Thankfulness is an anytime kind of subject. We all need to increase our thinking of thank-yous most of the time.
We all hate the feeling of not getting a thank you. We don’t do what we do for a thank you, but it is so nice to hear one once in a while. Thank-yous help us know that what we have done is appreciated and accepted by those for whom we are helping or doing something. They validate the effort we give. They help encourage us to keep doing whatever we are doing. A thank you is just, well, nice.
Teachers do not get a lot of thank-yous. We knew it was a pretty thankless job when we signed up for this. We don’t complain about not hearing the words, but inside we secretly wish to hear one more often. It is not a big deal, but it would just be helpful to hear.
Think about it. If you feel that way, who around you might feel that way? Sure, you are not getting a thank you right now, but could you give one? You know your fellow teachers would like to hear one. Tell them. Find something to thank them for, and be personal about it! Find something they did for you are that they are doing for a student and say thank you. Say it. Write it. Buy a card. You don’t know how much it will encourage them…actually, you know exactly how much it will encourage them! So you be the thank-er at you school!
Thank other people, too. Find some students that are doing great things. Thank them. Go to your administration and thank them for everything that they do. You think you have a thankless job? They hear it a lot less than you do! Go to the school receptionist, administrative assistant, custodians, school maintenance, school nurse, cafeteria workers, and any of the other many thankless people at your school and say a big THANK YOU! You know they would love to hear it!
You may not hear thank you enough, but are you giving them enough? Who do you need to say thank you to right now? Go do it! Think of three people to thank today, thank them, and then come back here and tell us all about it. You are awesome, so be awesome to others!
Before I close this post out, I need to give a thank you. Last night, this blog officially crossed the Over 10,000 Views mark! I started this blog/encouragement revolution just a little more than three weeks ago, and you all have already pushed it to that benchmark. You all are awesome! Thank you for sharing the blog with others! Thank you for all of the “likes” and shares to other sites! Thank you for all of the Facebooking, Tweeting, Edmodo-ing, Pinning, and emailing of this encouragement to others! It means a lot to have this message of hope affecting and helping others remember why they teach and that they are good teachers. I love sending this message…thank you for passing the message on! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
Teacher, thank you for letting me be a part of your teaching life! Thank you for being the awesome teacher that you are! Thank you for just being you! Keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
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